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Author Welsh, Dave, 1952-

Title Underground writing : the London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf / David Welsh.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index.
Contents The kingdom of shadows: the infernal underground of George Gissing -- The utopian underground of H.G. Wells -- 'The roar of the underground railway': the making of the Tube in the interwar years -- The kingdom of individuals: safety and security on the Tube in the Second World War.
Summary The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which the London Underground was 'mapped' by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. From late Victorian London to the end of World War II, 'underground writing' created an imaginative world beneath the streets of London. The real subterranean railway was therefore re-enacted in number of ways in writing, including as Dantean Underworld or hell, as a gateway to a utopian future, as psychological looking-glass or as place of safety and security.
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Subject Subways -- England -- London -- Literary collections.
Subways.
England -- London.
Genre/Form Literary collections.
Subject Subway stations -- England -- London -- Literary collections.
Subway stations.
Subways -- England -- London -- History.
History.
Subway stations -- England -- London -- History.
London (England) -- Literary collections.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Literature.
Literature.
Other Form: Print version: Welsh, Dave, 1952- Underground writing. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010467689
ISBN 9781846315978 (electronic book)
1846315972 (electronic book)
9781781386989 (electronic book)
1781386986 (electronic book)
9781846312236 (cased)
184631223X
Standard No. 60001187194
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