Brigid Rooney

Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity' investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time. 'Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity' rethinks existing cultural debates about suburbia - in Australia and elsewhere - by putting novelistic representations of 'suburbs' (suburban interiors, homes, streets, forms and lives over time) in dialogue with the often negative idea of 'suburbia' in fiction as an amnesic and conformist cultural wasteland. 'Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity' shows, in other words, how Australian novels dramatize the collision between the sensory terrain of the remembered suburb and the cultural critique of suburbia. It is through such contradictions that novels create resonant mental maps of place and time. Australian novels are a prism through which suburbs - as sites of everyday colonization, defined by successive waves of urban development - are able to be glimpsed sidelong.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783088164
• Artikelnr.: 56822551

Autorenporträt

Brigid Rooney teaches Australian literature in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her previous publications include 'Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life' (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Things to Do with Suburbia
Part 1 Pre-1945 Suburbia
Chapter One Bungalow Modernism: D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo
Chapter Two Breaking the Iron Circle: Women Writing the Suburbs, 1917-1944
Part 2 Mid- Century Suburbia
Chapter Three Frontier Suburb, Interior Modernity: Patrick White's The Tree of Man
Chapter Four The Long Remove: Expatriate Visions of Suburbia
Chapter Five Electric Suburbia: Reverberations and Legacies of Shock in Women's Fiction
Part 3 Post- Suburbia
Chapter Six Reflex, Reflection, Revision: Post- Suburban Novels
Chapter Seven Outer Suburban Tales
Chapter Eight Suburban Globe: Homing Strangers, Estranging Home
Coda
Chapter Nine Refractions of Suburbia in Alexis Wright's, The Swan Book
Notes
Works Cited
Index.