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Aspidistra Flying
bed-sitting rooms
Bedsitter Land
Bedsitting Room
Black Watch
Boarding House Life
boarding houses
Brian Chikwava's Harare North
Brian Chikwava’s Harare North
British cultural history
British social history
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Colonic Irrigation
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film history
Frears's Dirty Pretty Things
Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things
gender and sexuality research
Harare North
Heist Movie
Lavender Hill Mob
literary urban studies
Loach's Films
Loach’s Films
migration and asylum studies
Muriel Spark
Nina Hamnett
political theory
postwar housing crisis
queer domesticity
Receiving Housing Support
Sweet Sixteen
twentieth-century English housing narratives
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781350139459
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse demographic of working women and men, retired army officers, gay people, students, bohemians, writers, artists, performers, migrants and asylum seekers, as well as shady figures and criminals. Drawing on historical records, case studies, and examples from literature, art, and film, the book examines how the prevalence and significance of bedsits and boarding houses in novels, plays, detective stories, Ealing comedies, and contemporary fiction and film produced its own genre of narrative. The nine chapters are written by an international range of established and emerging scholars in the fields of literary studies, art and film history, political theory, queer studies and cultural studies. A lively, highly original study, Living with Strangers makes a significant contribution to the cross-disciplinary field of home studies and provides insight into a crucial aspect of British cultural history. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, history, literary studies, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, film studies and cultural studies.
Chiara Briganti is former Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton College, USA and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK. Kathy Mezei is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge.
