TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of Brigid Rooney's 'Suburban Space, The Novel and Australian Modernity'
AU - Gibson, Suzie
PY - 2020/4/28
Y1 - 2020/4/28
N2 - 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 are tarnished with a lack of individuality, presenting as part of commodified en masse living conditions where every home looks alike down to the ubiquitous and inhospitable roller door garage frontages. Much has been written about suburban spaces and the need to liberate one’s self from their insularity. A widely known example is Richard Yates’s famed Revolutionary Road (1961), chronicling a couple’s efforts to retrieve their marriage through daring plans to leave their leafy suburban life in Connecticut in order to make a break for Paris – a glittering world city that promises to replace sombre mediocrity with freedom and glamour.
AB - 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 are tarnished with a lack of individuality, presenting as part of commodified en masse living conditions where every home looks alike down to the ubiquitous and inhospitable roller door garage frontages. Much has been written about suburban spaces and the need to liberate one’s self from their insularity. A widely known example is Richard Yates’s famed Revolutionary Road (1961), chronicling a couple’s efforts to retrieve their marriage through daring plans to leave their leafy suburban life in Connecticut in order to make a break for Paris – a glittering world city that promises to replace sombre mediocrity with freedom and glamour.
KW - Suburbia, the Novel, Modernity, Australian Literature
UR - https://www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/review-of-brigid-rooneys-suburban-space-the-novel-and-australian-modernity
U2 - 10.20314/als.ab77f7856a
DO - 10.20314/als.ab77f7856a
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
SN - 1837-6479
VL - 35
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Australian Literary Studies
JF - Australian Literary Studies
IS - 1
ER -