Writing London - Volume 2: Materiality, Memory, Spectrality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004)

Following on from Julian Wolfrey's successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey's original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed which established new ways of writing about and responding to the city. Writing London - Volume 2 explores through a range of readings of twentieth-century films and texts the complex relationship between the experience of the city, the pleasures of the urban text and the solitary nature of these pleasures. The book has a broad focus, in part dictated not only by the transformation of literary production in the twentieth-century, but also by the need to respond to the changes in both urban representation and London itself. Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Maureen Duffy, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock. The volume covers texts from the late nineteenth-century to the end of the twentieth, in a critical reading that incorporates the theoretical insights of Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord and Jacques Derrida.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	J. Wolfreys
Dimensions:	203 x 127mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	253
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-42290-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-349-42290-8
Barcode:	9781349422906

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