London's underground spaces representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915
The construction of London’s underground sewers, underground railway and suburban cemeteries created seismic shifts in the geography and the psychological apprehension of the city. Yet, why are there so few literary and aesthetic interventions in Victorian representations of subterranean spaces? Wha...
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Edinburgh University Press
2013
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction. Spatial Practices and Realignments ; Digging through the Layers ; Which Way to the Underground?.
- The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality, The 'Great Unwashed' and the Incontinent City ; Literature of Filth/Visions of the Sublime ; Tainted Love: Prostitutes and Sexual Contagion ; Reading the Body of the Prostitute ; Imperial Impurities/Foreign Filth ; Embanking the Empire: Literature of Otherness ; Beyond Cleanliness.
- Tubing It: Speeding Through Modernity in the London Underground. Spatial Annihilation, Production and Representation ; Recuperating Meaning in the Underground ; Temporal Dislocations ; Failure and Psychological Disjunctions ; Disembarkation.
- The (Un)Buried Life: Death in the Modern Necropolis. The Disposal of the Dead: Shifting Attitudes towards the Corpse ; Geographies of the Dead ; Resurrection, Resurrectionists and the Revenant ; Feminine Resurrections and Spectral Dispossessions ; Underground Mourning, Memory and Memorabilia ; Final Exhumation.
- Underground Revolutions: Invisible Networks of Terror in Fin-de-Siècle London. Infernal Machines and Diabolical Plots ; 'Fenian Fire': Unfolding the Revolutionary Plot ; Middle-class Socialists and Anarchic Aristocrats ; Domesticating Terror ; Language of Rebellion/Performing Terror ; From Individual Action to Existential Inertia ; After the 'Revolution' ...
- Conclusion