Bungalow Modernity

A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home

Mary Lou Emery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

258 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8025-5 (ISBN)

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Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E.M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the "bungalow mania" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.

Mary Lou Emery is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. Author of two previous books, plus critical essays and book chapters in British, Caribbean, and transnational modernism, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: More Than One Story

Part One: Bungalow Empire

Prologue—“At the Bay”: Katherine Mansfield’s Bungalow Colony

1. From Seaside to Suburb: Bungalow Phobia in H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster and Rebecca West

2. Colonial Frontiers: Mutable Bungalows in E.M. Forster, George Orwell and Amitav Ghosh

Part Two: Bungalow America

Prologue—“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”: John Lennon’s Bungalow Hunt

3. On the Veranda: Plantation Labor and Design in Frank Lloyd Wright and William Faulkner

4. Bungalow Uncanny: Stranger Selves in Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene) and Willa Cather

Part Three: California Dreams

Prologue—“In a California Bungalow”: Charles Warren Stoddard’s Bungalow Holiday

5. Playing House: Buster Keaton in Bungalow Land

6. From Bungalow Noir to Open House: The Multicultural Southland in James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Sue Grafton and Walter Mosley

Conclusion: Restorations

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	21 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4766-8025-6 / 1476680256
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8025-5 / 9781476680255
Zustand	Neuware