London eyes : reflections in text and image /
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Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2007. |
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Description: | xii, 228 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Polygons ; v. 13 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6810633 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Victorian and Edwardian London on the page: Introduction / Gail Cunningham; London commuting : suburb and city, the quotidian frontier / Gail Cunningham; John Thomson's London in photographs / Lindsay Smith; Displacing urban man : Sherlock Holmes's London / Andrew Smith; Aestheticism "at home" in London : A. Mary F. Robinson and the aesthetic sect / Ana Parejo Vadillo; "There's more space within than without" : agoraphobia and the bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage / Deborah Parsons; The aesthetics of walking : literary and filmic representations of London in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent / Roger Webster
- Pt. 2. The modern age : London in image: Introduction / Stephen Barber; An indescribable blur : film and London / Stephen Barber; Shutting out the city : reflections on the portrayal of London in 1960s auteur cinema / Hugo Frey; London circa sixty-six : the map of the film / Roland-François Lack; Representations of dystopia and the film city of London / Sara de Freitas; Poodle queens and the great dark lad : class, masculinity and suburban trajectories in gay London / Martin Dines; Coda : what colour is time? Derek Jarman's Soho / Jeremy Reed.