Writing London
Volume 3: Inventions of the City
Published on 12. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 262 pages
978-1-349-28438-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .
Reviews / Votes
'Julian Wolfreys' series of Writing London books goes from strength to strength. This volume contains admirable readings of the way a series of writers 'invent' London by way of telling stories about particular locations within it - including wonderful chapters on London at night, on Richard Marsh's The Beetle , on Amy Levy and Arnold Bennett (he revived an interest in Bennett for me!), on John Berger and Iain Sinclair, and, last, on Eliot's The Waste Land . The Eliot chapter is by far the best essay on The Waste Land I have ever read. It is a genuine tour de force, as is the whole book.' - Professor J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA
More details
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XI, 262 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-28438-2 (9781349284382)
DOI
10.1057/9780230591943
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/2007
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion .
Content
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: of invention and the singularities of the city of London The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle , London, and the Anxieties of Late Imperial England The 'tortuous geography of the night world': the 'productive disorder' of the Noctuary Text Between Seeing and Knowing: Amy Levy, Arnold Bennett and Urban Counter-Romance 'All the living and the dead': Urban Anamnesis in John Berger and Iain Sinclair 'Concatenated words from which the sense seemed gone': The Waste Land Afterword Works Cited Index