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Writing London and the Thames estuary : 1576-2016 / by Len Platt.
Van Pelt Library PR408.L65 P57 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Platt, Len, author.
- Series:
- Spatial practices ; 25.
- Spatial Practices ; 25
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Literature and society.
- London (England)--In literature.
- London (England).
- Thames River (England)--In literature.
- Thames River (England).
- Thames River Estuary (England)--In literature.
- Thames River Estuary (England).
- Geography in literature.
- National characteristics, English, in literature.
- Literature and society--England.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 215 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, [2017]
- Summary:
- Writing London and the Thames Estuary' is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependant on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T. S Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of 'estuary grotesque', the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy.
- Contents:
- Chorography-antiquarianism and the epistemology of place
- "Inconstant rabble"-Renaissance dramas, Queenborough, political imaginaries
- War stories, 1667-1942
- Estuary gothic and the modern metropolis
- Estuarine sociology and the making of an underclass
- "Eating gull since Friday"-estuary grotesque, seaside noir
- The estuary writes back
- Postscript-post Brexit.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004346659
- 9004346651
- OCLC:
- 981544238
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