Introduction: Suburban Realities

Abstract

Introduction: Suburban realities -- 1. "Houseless -- Homeless -- Hopeless!" : suburbs, slums and ghosts 1830-1870 -- 2. "A world of mud and fog" : the high Victorian and Edwardian suburb, 1880-1914 -- 3. "The third England" : suburban fiction and modernity, 1918-1939 -- 4. "Your environment makes as little sense as your life" : post-war suburbia 1945-1980 -- 5. "I tried to work out where I was" : contemporary suburbia -- Conclusion: "All stories are spatial stories."