| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Imprint; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality; Chapter 2 Tubing It: Speeding through Modernity n the London Underground; Chapter 3 The (Un)Buried Life: Death in the Modern Necropolis; Chapter 4 Underground Revolutions: Invisible Networks of Terror in Fin-de-Siècle London; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The 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 absence of 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Underground areas in literature.
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Underground areas in literature. |
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London (England) -- In literature.
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Underground architecture -- England -- London.
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Underground architecture. |
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England -- London. |
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Underground construction.
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Underground construction. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hwang, Haewon. London's underground spaces. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013] 9780748676071 (DLC) 2013443665 (OCoLC)856628427 |
| ISBN |
9780748676088 (electronic book) |
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0748676082 (electronic book) |
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1299802788 (electronic book) |
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9781299802780 (electronic book) |
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9780748676071 (hardback) |
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