Format:
1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)
ISBN:
9789004333048
Series Statement:
DQR studies in literature 41
Content:
A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction: A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke -- 2. Morbid Topographies: Placing Suicide in Victorian London -- 3. The 'Attraction of Repulsion': Dickens, Modernity, and Representation -- 4. Exhibiting Vagrancy, 1851: Victorian London and the 'Vagabond Savage' -- 5. 'When Dreams are Coming': Wordsworth, Jefferies and Visions of the London Crowd -- 6. James Thomson's London: Beyond the Apocalyptic Vision of the City -- 7. Surveying Victorian and Edwardian Londoners: George R. Sims' Living London -- 8. Rehearsals, Refutations, Representation: Gissing's New Grub Street and the Problem of an Urban Realism -- 9. The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle, London, and the Abyssal Subject -- 10. Socio-Spatial Relations in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove -- 11. Jack London and the East End: Socialism, Imperialism and the Bourgeois Ethnographer -- 12. Thomas Burke: Son of London -- 13. The London Necropolis: Suburban Cemeteries and the Necropolitan Imaginary -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042022904
Additional Edition:
Print version Phillips, Lawrence A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke : Victorian and Edwardian Representations of London Leiden : BRILL,c2007 ISBN 9789042022904
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Literatur
;
London
;
Geschichte 1820-1950
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004333048
