Materiality, Memory, Spectrality (v. 2) (Writing London) - Hardcover

Wolfreys, Julian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333914295 ISBN 13: 9780333914298

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

Following on from Julian Wolfrey's successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey's original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed which established new ways of writing about and responding to the city. Writing London Volume 2 explores through a range of readings of twentieth century films and texts the complex relationship between the experience of the city, the pleasures of the urban text and the solitary nature of these pleasures. The book has a broad focus, in part dictated not only by the transformation of literary production in the twentieth century, but also by the need to respond to the changes in both urban representation and London itself. Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Maureen Duffy, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock. The volume covers texts from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, in a critical reading that incorporates the theoretical insights of Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord and Jacques Derrida.

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About the Author

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Victorian Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Florida.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333914295
• ISBN 13: 9780333914298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264