Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Rhetorical Constructions of the Good Life
I. Imaging the Suburban Good Life
1. Everyday Practices, Rhetoric, and the Suburban Good Life
2. Imaging the Good Life: Visual Images of the Suburban Good Life
II. Home and Kitchen: Building Safe and Authentic Space
3. Housing the Good Life: Residential Architecture and Neighborhoods
4. Eating the Good Life: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Rhetoric’s Embodied Materiality in the Italian-Themed Suburban Restaurant
III. Consuming Suburbs: Building Sacred and Civic Space
5. Worshipping the Good Life: Megachurches and the Making of the Suburban Moral Landscape
6. Buying the Good Life: How the Lifestyle Center Became Suburbia’s Civic Square
Conclusion: Remembering and Rethinking Suburbs
Notes
Bibliography
Index