Imagined Londons

Author : Pamela K. Gilbert
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487976

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Imagined Londons by Pamela K. Gilbert Pdf

Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day. Imagined Londons explores the diverse ways that Britain’s “global city” has been imagined and represented in literature, history, the arts, and popular culture, from the mid–nineteenth century to the present day. American and British contributors examine a variety of topics, ranging from poetry to architecture, from dance music to gay pornography, from “tube” maps to the role of Bangladeshi communities in shaping contemporary London politics. Broadly interdisciplinary and deeply attentive to London’s historical diversity, the book is unified by its attention to a single question: How have the many imaginations and representations of London shaped—and been shaped by—history and culture? The answers provided within this volume offer the chance to view London in surprising new ways. Pamela K. Gilbert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels and the coeditor (with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie) of Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Anna Quindlen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780792242079

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Imagined London by Anna Quindlen Pdf

Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Quindlen takes readers on a delightful tour of the English capital, comparing the London of fact with the London of fiction.

Author : Sukhdev Sandhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026625728

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London Calling by Sukhdev Sandhu Pdf

Black authors of the 18th century were powerful figures: out walking near Charing Cross with one of his artist friends, Ignatius Sancho was accosted by a young fop who cried out to his friend, Smoke Othello. Sancho placed himself across the path and exclaimed in booming tones, Aye, Sir, such Othellos you meet with but once in a century. Such Iagos as you, we meet with in every dirty passage. Proceed, Sir

Author : Anna Quindlen
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426201820

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Imagined London by Anna Quindlen Pdf

Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home—in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities. While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always been the star, both because of the primacy of English literature and the specificity of city descriptions. She bases her view of the city on her own detailed literary map, tracking the footsteps of her favorite characters: the places where Evelyn Waugh's bright young things danced until dawn, or where Lydia Bennett eloped with the dastardly Wickham. In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist tradition of the 21st. With wit and charm, Imagined London gives this splendid city its full due in the landscape of the literary imagination. Praise for Imagined London: "Shows just how much a reading experience can enrich a physical journey." —New York Times Book Review "An elegant new work of nonfiction... People will be inspired by this book." —Ann Curry, Today "An affectionate, richly allusive tribute to the city." —Kirkus Reviews

Author : James Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018312571

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The Travels of the Imagination; a true Journey from Newcastle to London in a Stage-Coach: with observations upon the Metropolis. By J ames M urray by James Murray Pdf

Author : Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151210

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Dickens and the Imagined Child by Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters Pdf

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.

Author : Rashmi Varma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136804021

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The Postcolonial City and its Subjects by Rashmi Varma Pdf

This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks—the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.

Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781683590

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Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson Pdf

What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Author : P. Ashton,H. Kean
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230234468

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People and their Pasts by P. Ashton,H. Kean Pdf

In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

Author : James Paskins,Sarah Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1013284461

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Imagining the Future City by James Paskins,Sarah Bell Pdf

London is one of the world's leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city's future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice. This book approaches the question of London's future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : A. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230596924

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Imagining London, 1770-1900 by A. Robinson Pdf

Combining a unique overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between the two cities which Londoners inhabited: the physical spaces of the metropolis, whose socially stratified and gendered topography was shaped by consumer culture and unregulated capitalism; and an imaginary 'London', an 'Unreal City' which reflected and influenced their understanding of, and actions in, the 'real' environment.

Author : Lydia Murdoch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813537221

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Imagined Orphans by Lydia Murdoch Pdf

"In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Len Platt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004346666

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Writing London and the Thames Estuary by Len Platt Pdf

Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre and tourist literature, Writing London and the Thames Estuary by Len Platt traces the making of the Thames estuary as margin by the London metropolis.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781409058748

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Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie Pdf

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and indignation he carefully examines an expanse of topics; including the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, the Labour Party, Palestinian identity, contemporary film and late-twentieth century race, religion and politics. Elsewhere he trains his eye on literature and fellow writers, from Julian Barnes on love to the politics of George Orwell's 'Inside the Whale', providing fresh insight on Kipling, V.S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, John le Carré, Raymond Carver, Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon among others. Profound, passionate and insightful, Imaginary Homelands is a masterful collection from one of the greatest writers working today.

Author : Coll-Peter Thrush
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300206302

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Indigenous London by Coll-Peter Thrush Pdf

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- 1. The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons -- Interlude One: A Devil's Looking Glass, circa 1676 -- 2. Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London 1580-1630 -- Interlude Two: A Debtor's Petition 1676 -- 3. Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder 1710-1765 -- Interlude Three: Atlantes 1761 -- 4. "Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt": Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City 1766-1785 -- Interlude Four: A Lost Museum 1793