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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Housing, class and gender in modern British writing, 1880-2012
  name:
    name part: Cuming, Emily
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Emily Cuming.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Home in literature
  subject:
    topic: Dwellings in literature
  subject:
    topic: Gender identity in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Social classes in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: European
    topic: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  classification: PR478.H64 C86 2016
  classification: 820.9/355
  identifier: 9781107150188
  identifier: 1107150183
  identifier: 2016011214
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160509
    record change date: 20170926145758.0
    record identifier: in00003724848