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Book SynopsisWho said that the suburbs are boring? The suburban trick is to look ordinary and be extraordinary, as Lynne Hapgood's absorbing discussion of the suburbs in fiction from 1880-1925 reveals. -- .
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction - The defining suburb
Part I Suburban visions
1. The utopian suburb: Jerome K. Jerome, William Morris and 'the logical dream'
2. The suburban idyll: Arthur Conan Doyle, Keble Howard, John Galsworthy
3. Beyond the suburbs: Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas, E.M. Forster
Part II Suburban dreams
4. The suburban garden: Elizabeth von Arnim and the garden romances
5. The feminine suburb I: Women readers and romance fiction
6. The feminine suburb II: Louise Gerard, Sophie Cole, Alice Askew, Mary Hamilton
Part III Suburban realities
7. The working-class suburb: William Pett Ridge, Shan Bullock, Edwin Pugh
8. The suburban cul-de-sac: George Gissing and H.G. Wells
9. The suburban extraordinary: Arnold Bennett and G.K. Chesterton
Suburban fiction: A publication timeline
Select bibliography
