The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Manley is William R. Kenan, Jr Professor of English at Yale University, Connecticut. Klappentext Offers a variety of approaches to the topic of London in English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Zusammenfassung London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works! from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials! the essays in this volume explore representations of the city and its literary culture from medieval times to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Lawrence Manley; 1. Images of London in medieval English literature Ralph Hanna; 2. London and the early modern stage Jean E. Howard; 3. London and the early modern book Adrian Johns; 4. 'Sweet Thames! Run softly': London and poetry to 1750 Brean Hammond; 5. Upon the town: staging London in the Restoration and eighteenth century Laura J. Rosenthal; 6. London and narration in the long eighteenth century Cynthia Wall; 7. London and nineteenth-century poetry William Sharpe; 8. City walkers: London in the Victorian novel Rosemarie Bodenheimer; 9. London in Victorian visual culture Shearer West; 10. London in poetry since 1900 Peter Barry; 11. London and modern prose, 1900-50 Leo Mellor; 12. Immigration and postwar London literature John C. Ball; 13. London eyes: writing London in the twenty-first century John McLeod; 14. Inner London James Donald; Further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Manley, Lawrence (Yale University Manley, Manley Lawrence
• Assisted by: Lawrence Manley (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521722315
• ISBN: 978-0-521-72231-5
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Print On Demand; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; London, Greater London, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / General, British & Irish history, Literary studies: general