Format:
1 Online-Ressource (306 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9789004333048
Series Statement:
DQR studies in literature 41
Content:
Preliminary Material /Lawrence Phillips -- INTRODUCTION: A MIGHTY MASS OF BRICK AND SMOKE /Lawrence Phillips -- MORBID TOPOGRAPHIES: PLACING SUICIDE IN VICTORIAN LONDON /L.J. Nicoletti -- THE ‘ATTRACTION OF REPULSION’: DICKENS, MODERNITY, AND REPRESENTATION /Efraim Sicher -- EXHIBITING VAGRANCY, 1851: VICTORIAN LONDON AND THE ‘VAGABOND SAVAGE’ /Adam Hansen -- ‘WHEN DREAMS ARE COMING’: WORDSWORTH, JEFFERIES AND VISIONS OF THE LONDON CROWD /David Skilton -- JAMES THOMSON’S LONDON: BEYOND THE APOCALYPTIC VISION OF THE CITY /Philip Tew -- SURVEYING VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDONERS: GEORGE R. SIMS’ LIVING LONDON /Keith Wilson -- REHEARSALS, REFUTATIONS, REPRESENTATION: GISSING’S NEW GRUB STREET AND THE PROBLEM OF AN URBAN REALISM /Dehn Gilmore -- THE HIEROGLYPHIC OTHER: THE BEETLE, LONDON, AND THE ABYSSAL SUBJECT /Julian Wolfreys -- SOCIO-SPATIAL RELATIONS IN HENRY JAMES’ THE WINGS OF THE DOVE /Alan Robinson -- JACK LONDON AND THE EAST END: SOCIALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE BOURGEOIS ETHNOGRAPHER /Lawrence Phillips -- THOMAS BURKE: SON OF LONDON /Anne Witchard -- THE LONDON NECROPOLIS: SUBURBAN CEMETERIES AND THE NECROPOLITAN IMAGINARY /Samantha Matthews -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /Lawrence Phillips -- INDEX /Lawrence Phillips.
Content:
Of all eras of London’s history, the Victorian and Edwardian city continues to stimulate the literary, visual, and popular imaginations like no other. This collection explores the unique relationship between the literary, and more broadly, artistic imagination and experience of the Victorian and Edwardian city. It includes some major figures such as Wordsworth, Dickens, and James, but also other writers and artists who are all but forgotten. Bringing together some of the leading scholars working on representations of Victorian and Edwardian London, this collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students working on literary London and more broadly the urban in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042022904
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mighty mass of brick and smoke Amsterdam : New York : Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 9789042022904
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004333048
