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Walking in the City

Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London

Catharina Löffler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIV, 357 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-658-17742-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

"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)

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 357 p.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	486 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Biography, Literature & Literary studies • Biography, Literature & Literary studies • British and Irish Literature • eighteenth-century literature • England • Flâneur • Grub Street Literature • imagined cities • Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Literature: history & criticism • Literature: history & criticism • Mobility • modernisation of London • Urban Imaginary • William Wordsworth
ISBN-10	3-658-17742-X / 365817742X
ISBN-13	978-3-658-17742-3 / 9783658177423
Zustand	Neuware