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The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960 responding to the defining habitat of twentieth-century USA: the suburbs.
American literature --- Suburbs in literature. --- History and criticism.
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A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues that these attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women's work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals how suburban life offered ambitious women, especially women writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. From more familiar figures such as the sensation author Mary Elizabeth Braddon to interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon, this work presents a more complicated portrait of how women and English society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape.
Suburban life --- Suburban life in literature. --- Suburbs in literature. --- History --- 1800-1899 --- Great Britain. --- Grossbritannien
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This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness." In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges. In novels as disparate as Tarzan (written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright's Native Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora. Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: "the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.
American fiction - 20th century -. --- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Race in literature. --- Segregation in literature. --- Suburban life in literature. --- Suburbs in literature. --- Whites in literature. --- American fiction --- Suburban life in literature --- Segregation in literature --- Suburbs in literature --- Whites in literature --- Race in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Blancs dans la littérature --- Blanken in de literatuur --- Leven in de voorsteden in de literatuur --- Vie de la banlieue dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- Lewis, Sinclair --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cain, James Mallahan --- Wright, Richard --- Burroughs, Edgar Rice --- White people in literature. --- White people in literature
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"We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Suburbs in mass media. --- Mass media --- Suburban life. --- Suburbs in literature. --- Suburbs in motion pictures. --- Suburban life in popular culture. --- Suburbs. --- Outskirts of cities --- Suburban areas --- Suburbia --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Metropolitan areas --- Popular culture --- Motion pictures --- Suburbs --- Growth --- Urban communities
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Drawing on postcolonial theory, urban studies, and architectural scholarship, this book will appeal to readers interested in Victorian, modern, and contemporary British literature and cultures, especially those concerned with how place shapes class and masculine identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Literature and society --- Suburban life in literature. --- Suburbs in literature. --- Regression (Civilization) in literature. --- Degeneration in literature. --- English fiction --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Great Britain --- Civilization --- In literature.
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"In the middle of nineteenth century, as Americans contended with rapid industrial and technological change, readers relied on periodicals and books for information about their changing world. Within this print culture, a host of writers, editors, architects, and reformers urged men to commute to and from their jobs in the city, which was commonly associated with overcrowding, disease, and expense. Through a range of materials, from pattern books to novels and a variety of periodicals, men were told of the restorative effects on body and soul of the natural environment, found in the emerging suburbs outside cities such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. They were assured that the promise of an ideal home, despite its association with women's work, could help to motivate them to engage in the labor and commute that took them away from it each day. In Suburban Plots, Maura D'Amore explores how Henry David Thoreau, Henry Ward Beecher, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and others utilized the pen to plot opportunities for a new sort of male agency grounded, literarily and spatially, in a suburbanized domestic landscape. D'Amore uncovers surprising narratives that do not fit easily into standard critical accounts of midcentury home life. Taking men out of work spaces and locating them in the domestic sphere, these writers were involved in a complex process of portraying men struggling to fulfill fantasies outside of their professional lives, in newly emerging communities. These representations established the groundwork for popular conceptions of suburban domestic life that remain today" --
Books and reading --- Suburban life in literature. --- Suburbs in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Men --- Suburban life --- Suburbs --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Outskirts of cities --- Suburban areas --- Suburbia --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Metropolitan areas --- History --- Growth --- American literature --- History and criticism.
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