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Book Synopsis
Who 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 Contents

List 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
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Margins of Desire

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 20 January 2005
      ISBN-13 9780719059704
      978-0719059704
      ISBN-10 719059704
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      Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Who 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 Contents

      List 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

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