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  1. London's Underground Spaces
    Representing the Victorian City, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
    Erschienen: [2022]
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality -- 2. Tubing It: Speeding Through Modernity in the London Underground -- 3. The... mehr

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality -- 2. Tubing It: Speeding Through Modernity in the London Underground -- 3. The (Un)Buried Life: Death in the Modern Necropolis -- 4. Underground Revolutions: Invisible Networks of Terror in Fin-de-Siècle London -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Provides an innovative approach to articulate what 'underground' meant to the VictoriansGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748676071','ISBN:9780748676088']);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.Key Features:An interdisciplinary study that explores Victorian maps, guidebooks, cartoons and advertisements, alongside literature, journals, photographs and art to bring the period to lifeDraws on modern critical frameworks of Derrida, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to recover and to conceptualize the lost spaces of the Victorian cityRedefines 'underground' beyond its spatial usage to look at the emergence of underground revolutionary movements in fin-de-siècle LondonArgues for the distinctiveness of London's underground culture and its influence on other global cities"

     

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  2. London's underground spaces
    representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915
    Erschienen: ©2013
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    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

     

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    ISBN: 9780748676088; 0748676082; 1299802788; 9781299802780
    Schriftenreihe: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
    Schlagworte: English literature; Underground architecture; Underground areas in literature; Underground construction; Underground architecture; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Literature; Underground architecture; Underground areas in literature; Underground construction; Unterirdische Welt; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record

  3. London's underground spaces
    representing the Victorian city, 1840 - 1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Edinburgh Univ. Press, Edinburgh

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  4. London's underground spaces
    representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    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

     

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    Introduction. Spatial Practices and Realignments ; Digging through the Layers ; Which Way to the Underground?. -- The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality, The 'Great Unwashed' and the Incontinent City ; Literature of Filth/Visions of the Sublime ; Tainted Love: Prostitutes and Sexual Contagion ; Reading the Body of the Prostitute ; Imperial Impurities/Foreign Filth ; Embanking the Empire: Literature of Otherness ; Beyond Cleanliness. -- Tubing It: Speeding Through Modernity in the London Underground. Spatial Annihilation, Production and Representation ; Recuperating Meaning in the Underground ; Temporal Dislocations ; Failure and Psychological Disjunctions ; Disembarkation. -- The (Un)Buried Life: Death in the Modern Necropolis. The Disposal of the Dead: Shifting Attitudes towards the Corpse ; Geographies of the Dead ; Resurrection, Resurrectionists and the Revenant ; Feminine Resurrections and Spectral Dispossessions ; Underground Mourning, Memory and Memorabilia ; Final Exhumation. -- Underground Revolutions: Invisible Networks of Terror in Fin-de-Siècle London. Infernal Machines and Diabolical Plots ; 'Fenian Fire': Unfolding the Revolutionary Plot ; Middle-class Socialists and Anarchic Aristocrats ; Domesticating Terror ; Language of Rebellion/Performing Terror ; From Individual Action to Existential Inertia ; After the 'Revolution' ... -- Conclusion

  5. London's Underground Spaces
    Representing the Victorian City, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
    Erschienen: [2022]; © 2013
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

    Provides an innovative approach to articulate what 'underground' meant to the VictoriansGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748676071','ISBN:9780748676088']);The construction of London's underground sewers, underground railway and suburban... mehr

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    Provides an innovative approach to articulate what 'underground' meant to the VictoriansGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748676071','ISBN:9780748676088']);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.Key Features:An interdisciplinary study that explores Victorian maps, guidebooks, cartoons and advertisements, alongside literature, journals, photographs and art to bring the period to lifeDraws on modern critical frameworks of Derrida, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to recover and to conceptualize the lost spaces of the Victorian cityRedefines 'underground' beyond its spatial usage to look at the emergence of underground revolutionary movements in fin-de-siècle LondonArgues for the distinctiveness of London's underground culture and its influence on other global cities

     

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  6. London's underground spaces
    representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
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    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... mehr

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    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

     

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    Introduction. Spatial Practices and Realignments ; Digging through the Layers ; Which Way to the Underground?. -- The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality, The 'Great Unwashed' and the Incontinent City ; Literature of Filth/Visions of the Sublime ; Tainted Love: Prostitutes and Sexual Contagion ; Reading the Body of the Prostitute ; Imperial Impurities/Foreign Filth ; Embanking the Empire: Literature of Otherness ; Beyond Cleanliness. -- Tubing It: Speeding Through Modernity in the London Underground. Spatial Annihilation, Production and Representation ; Recuperating Meaning in the Underground ; Temporal Dislocations ; Failure and Psychological Disjunctions ; Disembarkation. -- The (Un)Buried Life: Death in the Modern Necropolis. The Disposal of the Dead: Shifting Attitudes towards the Corpse ; Geographies of the Dead ; Resurrection, Resurrectionists and the Revenant ; Feminine Resurrections and Spectral Dispossessions ; Underground Mourning, Memory and Memorabilia ; Final Exhumation. -- Underground Revolutions: Invisible Networks of Terror in Fin-de-Siècle London. Infernal Machines and Diabolical Plots ; 'Fenian Fire': Unfolding the Revolutionary Plot ; Middle-class Socialists and Anarchic Aristocrats ; Domesticating Terror ; Language of Rebellion/Performing Terror ; From Individual Action to Existential Inertia ; After the 'Revolution' ... -- Conclusion

  7. London's underground spaces
    representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
    Erschienen: ©2013
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

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    Schriftenreihe: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
    Schlagworte: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Literature; Underground architecture; Underground areas in literature; Underground construction; Literatur; English literature; Underground areas in literature; Underground architecture; Underground construction; Unterirdisches Bauwerk <Motiv>; London <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

    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

  8. London's underground spaces
    representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh ; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK

    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... mehr

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    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.

     

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  9. London's Underground Spaces
    Representing the Victorian City, 1840-1915
    Autor*in: Hwang, Haewon
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    Provides an innovative approach to articulate what 'underground' meant to the VictoriansGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748676071','ISBN:9780748676088']);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.Key Features:An interdisciplinary study that explores Victorian maps, guidebooks, cartoons and advertisements, alongside literature, journals, photographs and art to bring the period to lifeDraws on modern critical frameworks of Derrida, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to recover and to conceptualize the lost spaces of the Victorian cityRedefines 'underground' beyond its spatial usage to look at the emergence of underground revolutionary movements in fin-de-siècle LondonArgues for the distinctiveness of London's underground culture and its influence on other global cities"...

     

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  10. London's underground spaces
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    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 th

     

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    ""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-Si�cle London""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""