Escaping the split-level trap: postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction

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Escaping the split-level trap: postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction

My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how American literature has commented on the emergence of a postsuburban environment – that is to say a cosmopolitan landscape in which the previous city/suburb binary is no longer evident. Whilst the term 'postsubu...

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Main Author:	Foster, Tim
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12636/

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