Living with Strangers: Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9781350016521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Chiara Briganti; Kathy Mezei; Rosie Cox

Opis

Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present.

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List of ImagesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsSeries preface: Why Home?, Rosie Cox and Victor BuchliIntroduction, Chiara Briganti (King’s College London, UK) and Kathy Mezei (Simon Fraser University, Canada)1. Aspidistras and Divans: Transient Spaces in the London Novel, 1920s to 1940s, Kathy Mezei (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and Chiara Briganti (King’s College London, UK)2. Immortal Apples and Eternal Eggs: Life and Still Life in the Bedsits of Bloomsbury, Hana Leaper (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)3. Writing in a Bedsitter: Muriel Spark and Doris Lessing, Paul Delany (Simon Fraser University, Canada)4. In a Queer Room, 1900-1970, Mark Armstrong (Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, UK)5. Thieves in the House: Ealing Comedy and the Criminal Lodger, Michael Newton (Leiden University, Netherlands)6. Cold Rooms in the Post-War London Novel, Chiara Briganti (King’s College London, UK) and Kathy Mezei (Simon Fraser University, Canada)7. London’s Post-War Housing Crisis and Detective Fiction, Allingham, Christie, Marsh, June Sturrock (Simon Fraser University, Canada)8. Precarious Living in the Films of Ken Loach, Luke Davies (Tübingen University, Germany)9. Leave to Remain: Bedsits, B&Bs and Borders in Contemporary Fictions of Asylum, Emily Cuming (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Index

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Chiara Briganti is former Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton College, USA and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. Kathy Mezei is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge.