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London eyes : reflections in text and image / edited by Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber.
Van Pelt Library PR468.L65 L66 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Polygons ; v. 13.
- Polygons ; v. 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life.
- History.
- London (England)--In literature.
- London (England).
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- London (England)--In motion pictures.
- London (England)--In art.
- City and town life--England--London--History--19th century.
- City and town life--England--London--History--20th century.
- London (England)--History--19th century.
- London (England)--History--20th century.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Victorian and Edwardian London on the page: Introduction / Gail Cunningham; London commuting : suburb and city, the quotidian frontier / Gail Cunningham; John Thomson's London in photographs / Lindsay Smith; Displacing urban man : Sherlock Holmes's London / Andrew Smith; Aestheticism "at home" in London : A. Mary F. Robinson and the aesthetic sect / Ana Parejo Vadillo; "There's more space within than without" : agoraphobia and the bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage / Deborah Parsons; The aesthetics of walking : literary and filmic representations of London in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent / Roger Webster
- Pt. 2. The modern age : London in image: Introduction / Stephen Barber; An indescribable blur : film and London / Stephen Barber; Shutting out the city : reflections on the portrayal of London in 1960s auteur cinema / Hugo Frey; London circa sixty-six : the map of the film / Roland-François Lack; Representations of dystopia and the film city of London / Sara de Freitas; Poodle queens and the great dark lad : class, masculinity and suburban trajectories in gay London / Martin Dines; Coda : what colour is time? Derek Jarman's Soho / Jeremy Reed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-214) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages 215-217.
- ISBN:
- 9781845454074
- 1845454073
- OCLC:
- 153580308
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