During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and
become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as
practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and
complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a
range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth
century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular
music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They
explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather
than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be
viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as
well as a source of significant creativity across a range of
cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering
the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative
suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and
the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.
Roger Webster is Professor of Literary Studies and Director of
the School of Media, Critical & Creative Arts, Liverpool John
Moores University, Liverpool.
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