Brigid Rooney teaches Australian literature in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her previous publications include 'Literary Activists: Writer-Intellectuals and Australian Public Life' (2009).

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Things to Do with Suburbia; Part 1 Pre-1945 Suburbia; Chapter One Bungalow Modernism: D. H. Lawrence's Kangaroo; Chapter Two Breaking the Iron Circle: Women Writing the Suburbs, 1917-1944; Part 2 Mid- Century Suburbia; Chapter Three Frontier Suburb, Interior Modernity: Patrick White's The Tree of Man; Chapter Four The Long Remove: Expatriate Visions of Suburbia; Chapter Five Electric Suburbia: Reverberations and Legacies of Shock in Women's Fiction; Part 3 Post- Suburbia; Chapter Six Reflex, Reflection, Revision: Post- Suburban Novels; Chapter Seven Outer Suburban Tales; Chapter Eight Suburban Globe: Homing Strangers, Estranging Home; Coda; Chapter Nine Refractions of Suburbia in Alexis Wright's, The Swan Book; Notes; Works Cited; Index.