{"product_id":"londons-underground-spaces-haewon-hwang-9780748676071","title":"London's Underground Spaces: Representing the Victorian City, 1840-1915","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvides an innovative approach to articulate what 'underground' meant to the Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe construction of London's underground sewers, underground railway and suburban cemeteries created seismic shifts in the geography and the psychological apprehension of the city. Yet, why are there so few literary and aesthetic interventions in Victorian representations of subterranean spaces? What is London's answer to the Parisian sewers of Victor Hugo or the unflinching realism of Émile Zola's underworld? Where is the great English underground novel? This study explores this elision not as an \u003ci\u003eabsence \u003c\/i\u003eof imaginative output, but as a presence and plenitude of anxiety and fears that haunt the pages of Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The way in which these writers negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces reveals both the emergence of Gothic, socialist, and modernist sensibilities, and the way all modern cities deal with what is unseen, intangible and inarticulable. The inclusion of illustrations of Victorian maps, cartoons, photographs and art bring the period to life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn interdisciplinary study that explores Victorian maps, guidebooks, cartoons and advertisements, alongside literature, journals, photographs and art to bring the period to lifeDraws on modern critical frameworks of Derrida, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to recover and to conceptualize the lost spaces of the Victorian cityRedefines 'underground' beyond its spatial usage to look at the emergence of underground revolutionary movements in \u003ci\u003efin-de-siècle\u003c\/i\u003e LondonArgues for the distinctiveness of London's underground culture and its influence on other global cities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Haewon Hwang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0748676074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748676071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Haewon Hwang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086798434559,"sku":"9780748676071","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b0d031b1-c222-4c26-a12c-fa95c41bdb7b.jpg?v=1769096645","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/londons-underground-spaces-haewon-hwang-9780748676071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}