Semi-detached empire [electronic resource] : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / Todd Kuchta.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.Description: viii, 264 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.9109355 22
LOC classification:
  • PR888.D373 K83 2010eb
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Contents:
Semi-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 -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Semi-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 -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."

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