The Cambridge companion to the literature of London / edited by Lawrence Manley.
Manley, Lawrence, 1949-
2011
PR8471 .C36 2011 (Mapit)
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The Cambridge companion to the literature of London / edited by Lawrence Manley.
ISBN
9780521897525
0521897521
9780521722315 (pbk.)
0521722314 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR8471 .C36 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/358421
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Manley, Lawrence, 1949-
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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Introduction / Lawrence Manley
1. Images of London in medieval English literature / Ralph Hanna
2. London and the early modern stage / Jean E. Howard
3. London and the early modern book / Adrian Johns
4. London and poetry to 1750 / Brean Hammond
5. Staging London in the Restoration and eighteenth century / Laura J. Rosenthal
6. London and narration in the long eighteenth century / Cynthia Wall
7. London and nineteenth-century poetry / William Sharpe
8. London in the Victorian novel / Rosemarie Bodenheimer
9. London in Victorian visual culture / Shearer West
10. London in poetry since 1900 / Peter Barry
11. London and modern prose, 1900-1950 / Leo Mellor
12. Immigration and postwar London literature / John Clement Ball
13. Writing London in the twenty-first century / John McLeod
14. Inner London / James Donald.

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