Kniha Conceiving the City Nicholas Freeman

Conceiving the City

London, Literature, and Art 1870-1914

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novel...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2007
Stránek
256
EAN
9780199218189
ISBN
0199218188
Enbook ID
04866540
Hmotnost
568
Rozměry
162 x 239 x 19

Kompletní popis

Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art. Breaking away from the language and style of Dickens and the static panorama paintings of William Powell Frith, major figures such as Henry James and J. M. Whistler, and, crucially, less-celebrated authors such as Arthur Machen, Edwin Pugh, and George Egerton bent realism into exciting new shapes. In the naturalism of George Gissing and Arthur Morrison, the fragmentary impressions of Ford Madox Ford, and the brooding mystery of Alvin Langdon Coburn's photogravures, London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art. Although many of these insights would be dismissed or at least downplayed by subsequent generations, the ideas evolved during the period from 1870 to 1914 anticipate not only the work of high modernists such as Eliot and Woolf, but also that of later urban theorists such as Foucault and de Certeau, and the novels and travelogues of contemporary London writers Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair.Nicholas Freeman recovers a sense of late-Victorian London as a subject for dynamic theoretical and aesthetic experiments, and shows, in stimulating analyses of Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Arthur Symons, and others how much of our understanding of urban space we owe to eminent (and not so eminent) Victorian figures. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book restores a much-needed historical perspective to our engagement with the metropolis.

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