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Writing London and the Thames estuary : 1576-2016 /
Writing London and the Thames Estuary' is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Spatial practices ;
25. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Writing London and the Thames Estuary' is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependant on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T.S Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of 'estuary grotesque', the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004346666 900434666X |