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- 题名/责任者:
- Housing, class and gender in modern British writing, 1880-2012 / Emily Cuming.
- 出版发行项:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- 出版发行项:
- ?2016
- ISBN:
- 9781107150188 (hardback)
- ISBN:
- 1107150183
- 载体形态项:
- x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- 个人责任者:
- Cuming, Emily, author.
- 论题主题:
- English literature-20th century-History and criticism.
- 论题主题:
- Home in literature.
- 论题主题:
- Dwellings in literature.
- 中图法分类号:
- I561.065
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.
- 内容附注:
- Slums: reading and writing the dwellings of the urban poor -- Boarding and lodging houses: at home with strangers -- Unhomely homes: life writing of the postwar 'scholarship' generation -- Estates: social housing in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and culture -- Conclusion-housing questions.
- 摘要附注:
- "Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as framing devices for the representation of peoples and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well-known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James Joyce, Pat O'Mara, Rose Macaulay, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon, Sarah Waters, Lynsey Hanley and Andrea Levy, the author reflects upon, and challenges, various myths and truisms of 'home' through an analysis of four distinct British settings: slums, boarding-houses, working-class childhood homes, and housing estates. Her exploration of works of social investigation, fiction and life writing leads to an intricate stock of housing tales that are inherited, shifting, and always revealing about the culture of our times. This book seeks to demonstrate how images of individuals within domestic space -- in literature, history and other cultural forms -- tell powerful and unexpected stories of class, gender, social belonging and exclusion"--
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