Neo-victorian cities : : reassessing urban politics and poetics / / edited by Marie-Luise Kohlke, Christian Gutleben; cover illustration, design by Marie-Luise Kohlke ; contributors, Isabelle Cases [and thirteen others].

This volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire...

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Superior document:Neo-Victorian Series, Volume 4
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Neo-Victorian series ; Volume 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (376 pages).
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505 0 0 |t Preliminary Material /  |r Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben --   |t Troping the Neo-Victorian City: Strategies of Reconsidering the Metropolis /  |r Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben --   |t Making and Unmaking ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: The Colonial City as Palimpsest in Neo-Victorian Fiction and Non-Fiction /  |r Kate Mitchell --   |t Neo-Victorian Cities and the Ramifications of Global Capitalism in Ayeesha Menon’s Mumbai Chuzzlewits /  |r Nathalie Vanfasse --   |t Re-imagining the Victorian Flâneur in the 1960s: The London Nobook-body Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher and Norman Cohen /  |r Isabelle Cases --   |t ‘Part Barrier, Part Entrance to a Parallel Dimension’: London and the Modernity of Urban Perception /  |r Julian Wolfreys --   |t Vulnerable Visibilities: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous Victorian Metropolis /  |r Jean-Michel Ganteau --   |t Mapping Gothic London: Urban Waste, Class Rage and Mixophobia in Dan Simmons’s Drood /  |r Mariaconcetta Costantini --   |t Neo-Victorian Cities of the Dead: Contemporary Fictions of the Victorian Cemetery /  |r Susan K. Martin --   |t Londons under London: Mapping Neo-Victorian Spaces of Horror /  |r Paul Dobraszczyk --   |t A Strangely Mingled Monster: Gender and Spatial Transgression in the Hardcore Metropolis of Paul Thomas’s Jekyll and Hyde /  |r Laura Helen Marks --   |t Steampunking New York City in Kate and Leopold /  |r Margaret D. Stetz --   |t The Ship and the Gun: The Perversity of Neo-Victorian Belfast in Glenn Patterson’s The Mill for Grinding Old People Young /  |r Barry Sheils --   |t Adaptive Re-Use: Producing Neo-Victorian Space in Hong Kong /  |r Elizabeth Ho --   |t Contributors /  |r Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben --   |t Index /  |r Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. 
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