Semi-detached empire [electronic resource] : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / Todd Kuchta.
Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.Description: viii, 264 p. : ill., mapISBN:- 9780813929255 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813929253 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813929262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813929261 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 081392958X (e-book)
- 9780813929583 (e-book)
- 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 2010eb
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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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.