Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London

Zusammenfassung Cynthia Wall reads the literature of Restoration and early eighteenth-century England within the historical and cultural contexts of the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire in 1666. She shows how literature attempts to reinvest the city with modern meaning and create new spaces for new genres. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Describing London: 1. The Great Fire and rhetorics of loss; 2. Londini renascenti: the spaces of rebuilding; 3. Redrawing London: maps and texts; Part II. Inhabiting London; 4. The art of writing the streets of London; 5. New narratives of public spaces: parks and shops; 6. Narratives of private spaces: churches, houses and novels; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Wall, Cynthia (University of Virginia) Wall, Cynthia Sundberg Wall
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2006
• EAN: 9780521024204
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02420-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies