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'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 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 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?' 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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