Writing London and the Thames Estuary: 1576-2016

ISBN-13: 9789004346659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str.

Len Platt

Opis

Writing London and the Thames Estuary is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependant on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T. S Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of 'estuary grotesque', the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Chorography-Antiquarianism and the Epistemology of Place
2 'Inconstant Rabble'-Renaissance Dramas, Queenborough, Political Imaginaries
3 War Stories, 1667-1942
4 Estuary Gothic and the Modern Metropolis
5 Estuarine Sociology and the Making of an Underclass
6 'Eating Gull since Friday'-Estuary Grotesque, Seaside Noir
7 The Estuary Writes Back
Postscript-Post Brexit
Select Bibliography
Index of People
Index of Subjects and Places

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Len Platt is Professor of Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published widely on modern and postmodern literary cultures. Most recently he co-edited, with Brian McHale, The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature (2016).