Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens by Wolfreys, J.

Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312214524)

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Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens by Wolfreys, J.

Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens

$109.99
Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens by Wolfreys, J.

Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various literary modes of productions as responses to the city. Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary representations and responses to the city, Writing London follows the shaping of the urban consciousness from Blake to Dickens, through Shelley, Barbauld, Byron, De Quincey, Engels and Wordsworth. It concludes with an Afterword which, in developing insights into the relationship between writing and the city, questions the heritage industry's reinvention of London, while arguing for a new understanding of the urban spirit.

Author: J. Wolfreys
ISBN-10: 0312214529
ISBN-13: 9780312214524
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/11/1998
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.86h x 5.82w x 0.94d
By J. Wolfreys
By J. Wolfreys
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Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion .

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