Resistance and the city : challenging urban space / edited by Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ehland, Christoph.

Fischer, Pascal.

Series:

Spatial Practices 27.

Spatial practices ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Cities and towns in literature.

Social conflict in literature.

Space in literature.

Cities and towns in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill / Rodopi, 2018.

Summary:

The essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, the contributions remind us of the struggles over the concrete as well as the imaginary space we call the city. The collection maps the various challenges experienced by urban communities, ranging from the unmistakably hegemonic claim of civic festivities in early modern London to the perceived threat posed by newly created parks in the Restoration period and from the dangers of criminality and riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the transformation of the Berlin Wall into souvenirs scattered around the globe.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

General Introduction / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer

Introduction: Challenging Urban Space / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer

Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century / Christoph Ehland

The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque / Norbert Lennartz

Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities / Mihaela Irimia

The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London / Kerstin Frank

Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain / Gerd Stratmann

Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature / Pascal Fischer

The “Capital of Discontent”? Urban Resistance in Manchester / Bernd Hirsch

Reimagining Urban Space

Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography / Stephan Kohl

Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture / Margaret Olin

Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital / Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler

Creative Transformations of the City

Critical Urban Studies and/in ‘Right to the City’ Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production / Jens Martin Gurr

Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets / Marie Hologa

Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry / István D. Rácz

The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin / Blake Fitzpatrick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-36920-1

OCLC:

1044777553

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004369207 DOI