ロンドンを書く 第３巻：都市の発明１８８０－１９３０年 Writing London : Inventions of the Other City 〈3〉

Wolfreys, Julian

Palgrave Macmillan（2007/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 262 p.／サイズ 40 b/w illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230008953
• DDC分類 820.932421

基本説明

'Julian Wolfrey's series of Writing London books goes from strength to strength. This volume contains admirable reading of the way a series of writers 'invent' London by way of telling stories about particular locations within it - including wonderful chapters on London at night, on Richard Marsh's The Beetle, on Amy Levy and Arnold Bennett (he revived an interest in Bennett for me!), on John Berger and Iain Sinclair, and last, on Eliot's The Waste Land. The Eliot chapter is by far the best essay on The Waste Land I have ever read. It is a genuine tour de force, as is the whole book."- Professor J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA.

Full Description

This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .

Contents

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: of invention and the singularities of the city of London The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle , London, and the Anxieties of Late Imperial England The 'tortuous geography of the night world': the 'productive disorder' of the Noctuary Text Between Seeing and Knowing: Amy Levy, Arnold Bennett and Urban Counter-Romance 'All the living and the dead': Urban Anamnesis in John Berger and Iain Sinclair 'Concatenated words from which the sense seemed gone': The Waste Land Afterword Works Cited Index