Semi-detached empire: suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present
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Main Author: Kuchta, Todd (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index
Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."
In the first book to consider British suburban literature from the vantage point of imperial and postcolonial studies, Todd Kuchta argues that suburban identity is tied to the empire's rise and fall. Like the semi-detached house, which joins separate dwellings under one roof, suburbia and empire were geographically distinct but imaginatively linked. Yet just as the "semi" conceals two homes behind a single façade, suburbia's apparent uniformity masks its defining oppositions--between country and city, "civilization" and "savagery," master and slave
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 264 p.)
ISBN:0813929253
0813929261
081392958X
9780813929255
9780813929262
9780813929583

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