Walking in the City
Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London
Autoren: Löffler, Catharina
Vorschau- A literary studies work
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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.
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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.
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“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)
- Inhaltsverzeichnis (9 Kapitel)
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Introduction
Seiten 1-18
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Experiencing the City: Urban Space in Literature
Seiten 21-64
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Bodies and Spaces: Eighteenth-Century Literary Psychogeography and the London Walker
Seiten 65-123
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The Art of Walking
Seiten 127-183
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“A History of Darkness, Pain, and Fear”: Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
Seiten 185-214
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (9 Kapitel)
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- Buchtitel
- Walking in the City
- Buchuntertitel
- Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London
- Autoren
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- Catharina Löffler
- Copyright
- 2017
- Verlag
- J.B. Metzler
- Copyright Inhaber
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-17743-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-17743-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-17742-3
- Auflage
- 1
- Seitenzahl
- XIV, 357
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