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A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.

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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

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

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