Semi-detached empire [electronic resource] : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / Todd Kuchta.
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TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.Description: viii, 264 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): - English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Degeneration in literature
- Regression (Civilization) in literature
- Suburbs in literature
- Suburban life in literature
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History
- Great Britain -- In literature
- Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century
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- PR888.D373 K83 2010
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Includes bibliographical references 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."
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.