London in Literature: Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis

Summary

Table of Contents:

1. Approaching Visionary London:
- Patrick Parrinder: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins": Visions of Ruined London from Edmund Spenser to J. G. Ballard
- Francesca Cuojati: De Quincey's Opiate London: From Labyrinth to Palimpsest
- Timothy Webb: Dangerous Plurals: William Wordsworth, Bartholomew Fair, and the Challenges of an Urban Poetics
- John Mepham: London as Auditorium: Public Spaces and Disconnected Talk in Works by Ford Madox Ford, Patrick Hamilton and Virginia Woolfs
- John A Stotesbury: A Postcolonial Reading of Metropolitan Space in Graham Green's The End of the Affair

2. Visionary London:
- Silvia Mergenthal: Whose Cityi Contested Spaces and Contesting Spatialities in Contemporary London Fiction
- Heike Hartung: Walking and Writing the City: Visions of London in the Works of Peter Ackroyd and Ian Sinclair
- Doris Teske: Jim Crace's Arcadia: Public Culture in the Postmodern City
- Susana Onega: The Plato Papers: Peter Ackrody's "Contrary" to Blake's Jerusalem
- Jean-Michel Ganteau: London: The Biography, or, Peter Ackrody's Sublime Geographies
- Mark Rowlinson: Physical Graffiti: The Making of the Represenation of Zone One and Two

Product details

• Authors: Susana Onega
• Assisted by: Susana Onega (Editor), John A Stotesbury (Editor), John A. Stotesbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9783825314071
• ISBN: 978-3-8253-1407-1
• No. of pages: 257
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 13 mm x 246 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Series: Anglistische Forschungen; Anglistische Forschungen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, London : Geschichte, Woolf, Virginia, London, De Quincey, Thomas, Ackrody, Peter, Green, Graham