The Cambridge companion to the literature of London

• 其他作者：
  • Manley, Lawrence, 1949-
• 其他題名：
  • Cambridge companions to literature.
• 出版： Cambridge, UK ;New York : Cambridge University Press
• 叢書名： Cambridge companions to literature
• 主題： English literature--England--London--History and criticism. , Literature and society--England--History. , London (England)--In literature. , London (England)--Intellectual life.
• ISBN： 9780521897525 (hbk.): US$102.81 、 0521897521 (hbk.) 、 9780521722315 (pbk.) 、 0521722314 (pbk.)
• 資料類型: 圖書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / Images of London in medieval English literature / London and the early modern stage / London and the early modern book / London and poetry to 1750 / Staging London in the Restoration and eighteenth century / London and narration in the long eighteenth century / London and nineteenth-century poetry / London in the Victorian novel / London in Victorian visual culture / London in poetry since 1900 / London and modern prose, 1900-1950 / Immigration and postwar London literature / Writing London in the twenty-first century / Inner London /
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• 摘要註: "London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities"--
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