Writing London : the trace of the urban text from Blake to Dickens / Julian Wolfreys.
Writing London : the trace of the urban text from Blake to Dickens / Julian Wolfreys.
Writing London : the trace of the urban text from Blake to Dickens / Julian Wolfreys.
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Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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1998.
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N820.8032421/3
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English
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xi, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: imagining London or, Rainbird was sure of it -- 1. Blake's London; London's Blake -- 2. 'Half lost in night': envisioning London or, Romantic poetry's Capital snapshots -- 3. Citephobia: the anxiety of representation or, fear and loathing in London: Thomas De Quincey, Friedrich Engels,...
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Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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England
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1998.
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How did writers in the nineteenth century come to terms with the phenomenon of London, the world's largest and most rapidly expanding city? How did they perceive the 'modern Babylon' in all its excesses and chaos, and how did the rapid change and development of London affect or alter their prose and poetry? Did London, in fact, help to shape modern...
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Writing London : the trace of the urban text from Blake to Dickens / Julian Wolfreys.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-246) and index.
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N820.8032421/3
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0312214529 (St. Martin's Press)
9780333736869 (Macmillan Press)
0333736869 (Macmillan Press)
9780312214524 (St. Martin's Press)
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820.932421
820.8032421
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991006878939702626
