Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
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Stefanie Strebel. Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
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The Rise and Fall of Suburbia: History, Popular Culture and Architecture
1 Suburbia in the Roaring Twenties: Anti-Urban Biases and the Shaping of Suburban Identities
1.1. Moulding Suburban Identities Through the Built Environment, Interior Design and Commodities in Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt
1.2. Architectural Decadence between Rural Pasts and (Sub)Urban Futures: The Built Environment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
2 From House in the Country to Box on a Slab: The Rampant Suburban Expansion After World War II
2.1. Eric Hodgins’ Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, or the Search for an Exurban Arcadia
2.2. “Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky”: Architectural Mass Production in John Keats’ The Crack in the Picture Window
3 Suburbia After Levittown: Architectural Diversification and the Rise of the Gated Community
3.1. Contemporary Architecture and the Suburban Gothic in Anne Rivers Siddons’ The House Next Door
3.2. The Gated Community as a Suburban Fortress in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain
4 The Post-Suburban State: Sprawling Architectural Landscapes
4.1. Architectural and Social Patchworks: The Eclecticism of Suburban Sprawl in Todd Solondz’s Happiness
4.2. Suburban New Jersey as Junkspace in Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse
What Remains of the Suburban Dream
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Fußnoten. The Rise and Fall of Suburbia: History, Popular Culture and Architecture
1 Suburbia in the Roaring Twenties: Anti-Urban Biases and the Shaping of Suburban Identities
1.1. Moulding Suburban Identities Through the Built Environment, Interior Design and Commodities in Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt
1.2. Architectural Decadence between Rural Pasts and (Sub)Urban Futures: The Built Environment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
2 From House in the Country to Box on a Slab: The Rampant Suburban Expansion After World War II
2.1. Eric Hodgins’ Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, or the Search for an Exurban Arcadia
2.2. “Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky”: Architectural Mass Production in John Keats’ The Crack in the Picture Window
3 Suburbia After Levittown: Architectural Diversification and the Rise of the Gated Community
3.1. Contemporary Architecture and the Suburban Gothic in Anne Rivers Siddons’ The House Next Door
3.2. The Gated Community as a Suburban Fortress in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain
4 The Post-Suburban State: Sprawling Architectural Landscapes
4.1. Architectural and Social Patchworks: The Eclecticism of Suburban Sprawl in Todd Solondz’s Happiness
4.2. Suburban New Jersey as Junkspace in Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse
What Remains of the Suburban Dream
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Stefanie Strebel
Between Dream Houses and “God’s Own Junkyard”: Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
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little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same.5
There’s a pink one and a green one, and a blue one and a yellow one,
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