Suburban space, the novel and Australian modernity / Brigid Rooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rooney, Brigid, author.

Series:

Anthem studies in Australian literature and culture

Anthem studies in australian literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Australian literature.

Suburbs in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 243 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2018.

Contents:

Part 1 Pre-1945 Suburbia

Chapter 1 Bungalow Modernism: D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo p. 23

Chapter 2 Breaking the Iron Circle: Women Writing the Suburbs, 1917-1944 p. 39

Part 2 Mid-Century Suburbia

Chapter 3 Frontier Suburb, Interior Modernity: Patrick White's The Tree of Man p. 61

Chapter 4 The Long Remove: Expatriate Visions of Suburbia p. 79

Chapter 5 Electric Suburbia: Reverberations and Legacies of Shock in Women's Fiction p. 101

Part 3 Post-Suburbia

Chapter 6 Reflex, Reflection, Revision: Post-Suburban Novels p. 123

Chapter 7 Outer Suburban Tales p. 141

Chapter 8 Suburban Globe: Homing Strangers, Estranging Home p. 159

Chapter 9 Refractions of Suburbia in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book p. 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1783088141

9781783088140

OCLC:

1029777934