Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens (1998)
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- Synopsis
- Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various literary modes of productions as responses to the city. Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary representations and responses to the city, Writing London follows the shaping of the urban consciousness from Blake to Dickens, through Shelley, Barbauld, Byron, De Quincey, Engels and Wordsworth. It concludes with an Afterword which, in developing insights into the relationship between writing and the city, questions the heritage industry's reinvention of London, while arguing for a new understanding of the urban spirit.
- Copyright:
- 1998
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780230372177
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333736869
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/10/20
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
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- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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