A mighty mass of brick and smoke : : Victorian and Edwardian representations of London / / edited by Lawrence Phillips.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 41
• TeilnehmendeR: Phillips, Lawrence 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: DQR Studies in Literature 41.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; INTRODUCTION: A MIGHTY MASS OF BRICK AND SMOKE /; MORBID TOPOGRAPHIES: PLACING SUICIDE IN VICTORIAN LONDON /; THE ‘ATTRACTION OF REPULSION’: DICKENS, MODERNITY, AND REPRESENTATION /; EXHIBITING VAGRANCY, 1851: VICTORIAN LONDON AND THE ‘VAGABOND SAVAGE’ /; ‘WHEN DREAMS ARE COMING’: WORDSWORTH, JEFFERIES AND VISIONS OF THE LONDON CROWD /; JAMES THOMSON’S LONDON: BEYOND THE APOCALYPTIC VISION OF THE CITY /; SURVEYING VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDONERS: GEORGE R. SIMS’ LIVING LONDON /; REHEARSALS, REFUTATIONS, REPRESENTATION: GISSING’S NEW GRUB STREET AND THE PROBLEM OF AN URBAN REALISM /; THE HIEROGLYPHIC OTHER: THE BEETLE, LONDON, AND THE ABYSSAL SUBJECT /; SOCIO-SPATIAL RELATIONS IN HENRY JAMES’ THE WINGS OF THE DOVE /; JACK LONDON AND THE EAST END: SOCIALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE BOURGEOIS ETHNOGRAPHER /; THOMAS BURKE: SON OF LONDON /; THE LONDON NECROPOLIS: SUBURBAN CEMETERIES AND THE NECROPOLITAN IMAGINARY /; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004333045
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Lawrence Phillips.

Of all eras of London’s history, the Victorian and Edwardian city continues to stimulate the literary, visual, and popular imaginations like no other. This collection explores the unique relationship between the literary, and more broadly, artistic imagination and experience of the Victorian and Edwardian city. It includes some major figures such as Wordsworth, Dickens, and James, but also other writers and artists who are all but forgotten. Bringing together some of the leading scholars working on representations of Victorian and Edwardian London, this collection will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students working on literary London and more broadly the urban in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.