The cultural construction of London's East End : urban iconography, modernity and the spatialisation of Englishness / / Paul Newland.
Paul Newland’s illuminating study explores the ways in which London’s East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts – films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century,...
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| Superior document: | Spatial practices, 5 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Spatial practices ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Notes: | Originally presented as: Thesis (Ph.D.)--Exeter University. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Development
- Apotheosis
- The Breath of the East
- From Bauhaus to the Blitz and Beyond
- After Ronan Point: Re-imagining the Territory
- Docklands: The Clearing of the Misery?
- After Empire: Tourism, Immigration and Colonisation
- Neo-Victorian Urban Visions
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index.