Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home

ISBN-13: 9781476680255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 258 str.

Mary Lou Emery

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments 1
Introduction: More Than One Story 5
Part One: Bungalow Empire
Prologue—"At the Bay": Katherine Mansfield's Bungalow Colony 28
1. From Seaside to Suburb: Bungalow Phobia in H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster and Rebecca West 35
2. Colonial Frontiers: Mutable Bungalows in E.M. Forster, George Orwell and Amitav Ghosh 60
Part Two: Bungalow America
Prologue—"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill": John Lennon's Bungalow Hunt 86
3. On the Veranda: Plantation Labor and Design in Frank Lloyd Wright and William Faulkner 90
4. Bungalow Uncanny: Stranger Selves in Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene) and Willa Cather 112
Part Three: California Dreams
Prologue—"In a California Bungalow": Charles Warren Stoddard's Bungalow Holiday 140
5. Playing House: Buster Keaton in Bungalow Land 147
6. From Bungalow Noir to Open House: The Multicultural Southland in James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Sue Grafton and Walter Mosley 171
Conclusion: Restorations 197
Notes 203
Works Cited 227
Index 243