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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 ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Writing London and the Thames Estuary: 1576-2016; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Place and Literatures; Outline; Chorography-Antiquarianism and the Epistemology of Place; Chorography and its Contemporary Framing; Antiquarian County History and the Estuary, Lambarde to Philipott (1576-1659); Hogarth's Peregrination and the Antiquarian Project; 'Inconstant Rabble'-Renaissance Dramas, Queenborough, Political Imaginaries; Rotten Borough; 'Set in Queenborough of all places'; 'There is a Corporation, a body, a kind of body'; 'What think you of me my Masters?'
- Defoe's Tour The QB Archive; War Stories, 1667-1942; Pepys's Diary; The King's Topography; 'True, true as the Nore light': the Jerrolds, Nautical Drama and the Rise of the Sailor Imaginary; How Mr Musselwhite Resolved the Matter of the Aerial Bomb Fiasco; A Note on the XDO Post at Shellness; Estuary Gothic and the Modern Metropolis; Dickens and Great Expectations; Last Night at the Theatre; Apocalypse When?; Estuarine Sociology and the Making of an Underclass; A Digression-the Story of Sheppey Steel; The Domdiv Index and New Sociological Imaginaries; Revisiting
- 'Eating Gull since Friday'-Estuary Grotesque, Seaside Noir1 The Local and the After-Postmodern; Estuary Chic; Seaside Noir, the New Real?-Weirdo (2012); Just Outside Leysdown-Wide Open (1989); The Estuary Writes Back; Overview; Case study 1: The Blue Town Heritage Centre; Case Study 2: Billy Childish-the Cunt from Chatham; Case Study 3: Estuary Life Writing-Mia Dolan and The Gift; Case Study 4: Uwe Johnson; Postscript-Post Brexit; Select Bibliography; Newspapers, Special Collections, etc; Index of People; Modern People; Historical People; Index of Subjects and Places