Reading London’s Suburbs

1. Introduction: Suburban Realities
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2. ‘Houseless — Homeless — Hopeless!’: Suburbs, Slums and Ghosts: 1830–1870
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3. ‘A World of Mud and Fog’: The High Victorian and Edwardian Suburb, 1880–1914
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4. ‘The Third England’: Suburban Fiction and Modernity, 1918–1939
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5. ‘Your Environment Makes as Little Sense as your Life’: Post-War Suburbia 1945–1980
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6. ‘I Tried to Work Out Where I Was’: Contemporary Suburbia
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7. Conclusion: ‘All Stories are Spatial Stories’
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Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Architecture, general, Fiction, Building Types and Functions, Literary Theory