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Reading London's Suburbs From Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith

Reading London's Suburbs From Charles Dickens to Zadie Smith

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A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.

Keywords

Literary CriticismModern20th CenturyEuropeanArtFictionArchitectureBuildingsSemiotics & TheoryLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

2015Book

Author(s)Ged Pope

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9781137342454

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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