Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge companion to the literature of London / edited by Lawrence Manley.

Author

Manley, Lawrence, 1949-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Description

xviii, 297 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities"--

Series Statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Subjects

• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• London (England) > In literature
• Literature and society > England > History
• London (England) > Intellectual life
• English literature > England > London > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Chronology; Introduction Lawrence Manley; 1. Images of London in medieval English literature Ralph Hanna; 2. London and the early modern stage Jean E. Howard; 3. London and the early modern book Adrian Johns; 4. 'Sweet Thames! Run softly': London and poetry to 1750 Brean Hammond; 5. Upon the town: staging London in the Restoration and eighteenth century Laura J. Rosenthal; 6. London and narration in the long eighteenth century Cynthia Wall; 7. London and nineteenth-century poetry William Sharpe; 8. City walkers: London in the Victorian novel Rosemarie Bodenheimer; 9. London in Victorian visual culture Shearer West; 10. London in poetry since 1900 Peter Barry; 11. London and modern prose, 1900-1950 Leo Mellor; 12. Immigration and postwar London literature John C. Ball; 13. London eyes: writing London in the twenty-first century John McLeod; 14. Inner London James Donald; Further reading; Index.

Call Number

PR8471

ISBN

• 9780521897525 (hardback)
• 0521897521 (hardback)
• 9780521722315 (paperback)
• 0521722314 (paperback)

LCCN

2011026077

OCLC

YBP 2011026077

Author

Manley, Lawrence, 1949-

Title

The Cambridge companion to the literature of London / edited by Lawrence Manley.

Imprint

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Series

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PR8471 .M36 2011