TY - BOOK AU - Kuchta,Todd ED - Project Muse. TI - Semi-Detached Empire: Suburbia and the Colonization of Britain, 1880 to the Present SN - 9780813929583 AV - PR888.D373 K83 2010 U1 - 823/.9109355 PY - 2010/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Literature and society KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Suburban life in literature KW - Suburbs in literature KW - Regression (Civilization) in literature KW - Degeneration in literature KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Civilization KW - In literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index; Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin; Libro Electrónico UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/763/ UR - http://www.udb.edu.sv/biblioteca/inicio_recursos_electronicos.php ER -