London underground : a cultural geography /

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This book provides a theoretical account of the evolution of an archetypal modern environment. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement from the natural topography initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the London Underground is shown to be a non-place, like a motorway, supermarket o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ashford, David, Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Temas:
London Underground Limited.
London Underground Limited
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization
London (England) > Civilization.
England > London
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The book of the machine : a user's guide
  • Psychopathology of modern space : the underground railways of the inner circle in the Victorian imagination
  • The lord of the dynamos : the American invasion of the tube-network in Theodore Dreiser's The stoic (1947)
  • Blueprints for Babylon : modernist mapping of the London underground
  • Making a home in modernity : the conceptual history of metroland
  • Christmas in hell : tube-shelter children in images by Bill Brandt and Henry Moore
  • Insurrection in alphabet-city : counterculture in the London underground
  • The ghost in the machine : psychogeography in the London underground.

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