UID:
almahu_9949383405702882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages)
ISBN:
0429325053
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9781000502534
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1000502538
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9781000497595
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1000497593
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9781000507478
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1000507475
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9780429325052
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in urban history
Content:
"The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what literary texts, grasped as material objects and as reflections on urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The contributing writers' approach to literary narratives and materialities in urban history is summarized within the conceptualization 'materiality in/of literature': the way in which literary narratives at once refer to the material world and also actively partake in the material construction of the world. This book takes a geographically multipolar and multidisciplinary approach to discuss cities in the UK, USA, India, South Africa, Finland, and France, whilst examining a wide range of textual genres from the novel to cartoons, advertising copy, architecture and urban planning, and archaeological writing. In the process, attention is drawn to narrative complexities embedded within literary fiction and to the dialogue between narratives and historical change. The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History has three areas of focus: literary fiction as form of urban materiality, literary narratives as social investigations of the material city, and the narrating of silenced material lives as witnessed in various narrative sources"--
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Urban History and the Materialities of/in Literature; PART I: Literary Fiction as Urban Materiality; 2 Between the Street and the Drawing Room: Slumming in Eliot's Early Poetry; 3 Recycling Fictions in the City: Don DeLillo and the Materiality of Waste; 4 Embodied Experience of London's Material Structures in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor; 5 Sensory Environments of Poverty Seen through the Writings of Runar Schildt, Toivo Tarvas, and Elvi Sinervo
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6 'Quite an aristocratic place, although in Whitechapel': Hospital Topographies and Margaret Harkness's Writing of LondonPART II: Literary Narratives as Social Investigations of the Material City; 7 'The Casey Court House Builders': 1930s Children's Comics and the Material Transformation of East London; 8 'On the Square': Constructing the Dangers of Depression-Era London in Ada Chesterton's Social Investigations; 9 'Would you Adam-and-Eve-it?': Geography, Materiality, and Authenticity in Novels of Victorian and Edwardian London
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10 The Literary Adventure of the Skyscraper in France (1893-1930): Literary Narratives and Urban Architecture between Fiction and RealityPART III: Narrating Silenced Material Lives; 11 The Unconfessed Architectures of Cape Town; 12 City Tales in Dialogue: Vijayanagara through Travelogues and Archaeology; 13 '. . . will never become quiet': The Materiality of Narrative and Memory in Trickster City; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Materiality of literary narratives in urban history. New York : Routledge 2020 ISBN 9780367343293
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429325052
