Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Foundations -- 1. Semi-Detached Empire -- 2. Reverse Colonization in The War of the Worlds -- Part Two: Façades -- 3. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Anglo-Indian -- 4. Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad's Suburban Speculation -- 5. Beyond the Abyss: Degeneracy and Death in the Edwardian Suburb -- Part Three: Semi-Detachment -- 6. Ressentiment and Late-Imperial Fiction -- 7. George Orwell and the Road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the Blood and Not on the Skin" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.