London eyes : reflections in text and image / edited by Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunningham, Gail.

Barber, Stephen, 1961-

Series:

Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections Series

Polygons ; v. 13

Polygons London eyes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

City and town life--England--London--History--19th century.

City and town life.

City and town life--England--London--History--20th century.

English literature--History and criticism--19th century--London--England.

English literature--History and criticism--20th century--England--London.

City and town life--History--19th century.

City and town life--History--20th Century.

London (England)--In literature.

London (England).

London (England)--In motion pictures.

London (England)--In art.

London (England)--History--19th century.

London (England)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 228 p. ) ill., map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

London incessantly generates and incites cultural responses, pre-eminently in the interconnected domains of literature and film.This book demonstrates that those responses have been sustained as vital experiments and engagements in configuring the city and its inhabitants.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.

Includes filmorgaphy: p. 215-217.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84545-407-3

OCLC:

1148888136