Walking in the City: Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London

ISBN-13: 9783658177423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 357 str.

Catharina Loffler

Opis

Catharina Loffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of eighteenth-century London walkers in literature from the period in this book. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and socially significant time in the history of London and make this book a tour of London as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of fictional eighteenth-century urban walkers. Uniting concepts of literary theory, urban studies and psychogeography, Loffler approaches a cross-generic range of literary texts that design uniquely subjective visions and versions of the city. A journey through the fictions and factions of eighteenth-century London, this book provides a compelling read for anyone interested in the history and literature of the English capital.

Recenzje

"This is a worthwhile attempt to bring an important current approach to the urban imaginary to the literature of perambulation in eighteenth-century London. ... Löffler exposes a rich seam of writing, ranging across a wide spectrum of genres, which rein forces current scholarship in presenting the metropolis as a shifting, multivalent kaleidoscope of spaces and experiences: not one London but many Londons, in the representation and imagining of which literary psychogeography plays a significant part." (Elizabeth McKellar, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 31 (3), 2019)

Spis treści

London in Literatur.- Psychogeography and Psycho-Physical Experiences of the City.- London Walkers.- Mobility in Eighteenth-Century London.

O autorze

Catharina Löffler holds a degree of English literature and music, and is a lecturer of English literary and cultural studies at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany.

Blurb

In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and socially significant time in the history of London and make this book a tour of London as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of fictional eighteenth-century urban walkers. Uniting concepts of literary theory, urban studies and psychogeography, Löffler approaches a cross-generic range of literary texts that design uniquely subjective visions and versions of the city. A journey through the fictions and factions of eighteenth-century London, this book provides a compelling read for anyone interested in the history and literature of the English capital.

Contents

• London in Literature 
  
• Psychogeography and Psycho-Physical Experiences of the City
• London Walkers
• Mobility in Eighteenth-Century London

 Target Groups

• Lecturers and students of (English) literary and cultural studies, history, urban studies
  
• Historians, journalists, cultural scientists, literary scholars, sociologists, urban researchers
  

The Author
Catharina Löffler holds a degree of English literature and music, and is a lecturer of English literary and cultural studies at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany.

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