London eyes : reflections in text and image /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Cunningham, Gail.
Barber, Stephen, 1961-
ISBN:9781845454074 (hardback : acid-free paper)
1845454073 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
Includes filmorgaphy: p. 215-217.
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.