A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke: Victorian and Edwardian Representations of LondonLawrence Alfred Phillips Rodopi, 2007 - 306 pages 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. |
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Efraim Sicher | 35 |
Adam Hansen | 61 |
David Skilton | 85 |
Philip | 107 |
Keith Wilson | 131 |
Dehn Gilmore | 151 |
Abyssal Subject | 169 |
Alan Robinson | 193 |
Lawrence Phillips | 213 |
Anne Witchard | 235 |
Samantha Matthews | 257 |
Notes on Contributors | 283 |
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