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Cities of affluence and anger : a literary geography of modern Englishness / Peter J. Kalliney.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.Description: viii, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0813925738 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780813925738 (acid-free paper)
  • 0813925746 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780813925745 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/355 22
LOC classification:
  • PR888.N3557 K35 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
English, all too English : national exceptionalism and the urban class system -- Broken fences : Forster, Waugh, and the garden cities -- Strangers in the park : Woolf, Selvon, and the traffic in modernism -- Cities of affluence : domesticity, class, and the angry young men -- The elusive Englishman : Doris Lessing goes to London town -- Mad goat in the attic : The satanic verses and global Englishness.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.

English, all too English : national exceptionalism and the urban class system -- Broken fences : Forster, Waugh, and the garden cities -- Strangers in the park : Woolf, Selvon, and the traffic in modernism -- Cities of affluence : domesticity, class, and the angry young men -- The elusive Englishman : Doris Lessing goes to London town -- Mad goat in the attic : The satanic verses and global Englishness.