Semi-detached empire : suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / / Todd Kuchta.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 264 p. :; ill., map. |
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Table of 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."