Writing London: Volume 2: Materiality, Memory, Spectrality - Softcover

Wolfreys, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349422894 ISBN 13: 9781349422890

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: London Disfigured PART I: STAGES Staging the City: London at the Fin de Siècle & Crises of Representation PART II: CRISES 'That particular psychic London': The Uncanny Example of Elizabeth Bowen The Insatiable Crisis of Memory: Maureen Duffy's Capital PART III: PUNCTUATIONS PART IV: INTERVENTIONS Peter Ackroyd and the 'endless variety' of the 'eternal city': Receiving 'London's haunted past' Sites of Resistance, Sites of Memory: Iain Sinclair's 'delirious fictions' of London PART V: PUNCTUATIONS PART VI: CONSTELLATIONS A Coincidence of Disparate Incidents: London Undone or, Seven Artists in Search of the City Index

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About the Author

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion .

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349422894
• ISBN 13: 9781349422890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 253