Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
Reihe: Neo-Victorian Series
Reassessing Urban Politics and Poetics
Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 576 g
Reihe: Neo-Victorian Series
ISBN: 978-90-04-29234-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
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Contents
Troping the Neo-Victorian City: Strategies of Reconsidering the Metropolis, Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben
PART I: Capitalising on the Palimpsestic City
1. Making and Unmaking ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: The Colonial City as Palimpsest in Neo-Victorian Fiction and Non-Fiction, Kate Mitchell
2. Neo-Victorian Cities and the Ramifications of Global Capitalism in Ayeesha Menon’s Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Nathalie Vanfasse
3. Re-imagining the Victorian Flâneur in the 1960s: The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher and Norman Cohen, Isabelle Cases
4. ‘Part Barrier, Part Entrance to a Parallel Dimension’: London and the Modernity of Urban Perception, Julian Wolfreys
PART II: Gothicising the Metropolitan Deathscape
5. Vulnerable Visibilities: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous Victorian Metropolis, Jean-Michel Ganteau
6. Mapping Gothic London: Urban Waste, Class Rage and Mixophobia in Dan Simmons’s Drood, Mariaconcetta Costantini
7. Neo-Victorian Cities of the Dead: Contemporary Fictions of the Victorian Cemetery, Susan K. Martin
8. Londons under London: Mapping Neo-Victorian Spaces of Horror, Paul Dobraszczyk
PART III: Romancing the Commodified Metropolis
9. A Strangely Mingled Monster: Gender and Spatial Transgression in the Hardcore Metropolis of Paul Thomas’s Jekyll and Hyde, Laura Helen Marks
10. Steampunking New York City in Kate and Leopold, Margaret D. Stetz
11. The Ship and the Gun: The Perversity of Neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson’s The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, Barry Sheils
12. Adaptive Re-Use: Producing Neo-Victorian Space in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Ho
Contributors
Index