Suburban life
Articles
- Burglary in Shady Hill and Sarsaparilla : The Politics of Conformity in White and Cheever
This paper compares short stories by Patrick White and American John Cheever, arguing that their representations of suburbia and modernity show fundamentally different approaches to…
1 October 2006 - Suburban Sonnets : ‘Mrs Harwood’, Miriam Stone and Domestic Modernity
IN 1959 in Tasmania, an unknown poet called Gwen Harwood started a guerilla war on incompetent literary editors by sending out her poems under male…
1 October 2007 - Review of Brigid Rooney’s Suburban Space, The Novel and Australian Modernity
The very word suburban often carries a pejorative meaning that aligns it with an unsightly urban sprawl. In reality, many modern suburban homes and streets…
28 April 2020