{"product_id":"margins-of-desire-9780719059711","title":"Margins of desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is of considerable contextual value to the Bennett scholar.  Her analysis of Bullock's Robert Thorne (1907), the story of a clerk and his search for a proper identity, makes a fascinating coda to Bennet's A Man From the North. (1898)  One of the joys of Hapgood's study is her ability to disturb his perceived tranquil sociological view of suburbia with a reasoned argument for seeing A Man From the North as a more savage text that George Gissing's New Grub Street.'   John Shapcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037291512151,"sku":"9780719059711","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719059711.jpg?v=1750935189","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/margins-of-desire-9780719059711","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}