Reading London's Suburbs

Ged Pope teaches on the English Literature degree course at London Metropolitan University.

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: 'Where is Clapham? Does Clapham even exist?': Suburban Invisibility 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' Notes Bibliography