The materiality of literary narratives in urban history /
"The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what literary texts, grasped as material objects and as reflections on urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The contributing writers' approach to li...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020
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| Series: | Routledge advances in urban history
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Urban History and the Materialities of/in Literature; PART I: Literary Fiction as Urban Materiality; 2 Between the Street and the Drawing Room: Slumming in Eliot's Early Poetry; 3 Recycling Fictions in the City: Don DeLillo and the Materiality of Waste; 4 Embodied Experience of London's Material Structures in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor; 5 Sensory Environments of Poverty Seen through the Writings of Runar Schildt, Toivo Tarvas, and Elvi Sinervo
- 10 The Literary Adventure of the Skyscraper in France (1893-1930): Literary Narratives and Urban Architecture between Fiction and RealityPART III: Narrating Silenced Material Lives; 11 The Unconfessed Architectures of Cape Town; 12 City Tales in Dialogue: Vijayanagara through Travelogues and Archaeology; 13 '. . . will never become quiet': The Materiality of Narrative and Memory in Trickster City; Index
- 6 'Quite an aristocratic place, although in Whitechapel': Hospital Topographies and Margaret Harkness's Writing of LondonPART II: Literary Narratives as Social Investigations of the Material City; 7 'The Casey Court House Builders': 1930s Children's Comics and the Material Transformation of East London; 8 'On the Square': Constructing the Dangers of Depression-Era London in Ada Chesterton's Social Investigations; 9 'Would you Adam-and-Eve-it?': Geography, Materiality, and Authenticity in Novels of Victorian and Edwardian London