MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01658nam a22003618a 4500
001 2009039652
003 DLC
005 20091002103033.0
008 090929s2010 vau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009039652
020 $a9780813929255 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780813929262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780813929583 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR888.D373$bK83 2010
082 00 $a823/.9109355$222
100 1 $aKuchta, Todd,$d1970-
245 10 $aSemi-detached empire :$bsuburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present /$cTodd Kuchta.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2010.
263 $a1006
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSemi-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 -- In the blood and not on the skin.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDegeneration in literature.
650 0 $aRegression (Civilization) in literature.
650 0 $aSuburbs in literature.
650 0 $aSuburban life in literature.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xIn literature.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y20th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory.