Underground writing : the London tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf / David Welsh.
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TextPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781846315978
- 1846315972
- 9781781386989
- 1781386986
- Subways -- England -- London -- Literary collections
- Subway stations -- England -- London -- Literary collections
- Subways -- England -- London -- History
- Subway stations -- England -- London -- History
- London (England) -- Literary collections
- Métros -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Anthologies
- Stations de métro -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Anthologies
- Métros -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire
- Stations de métro -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Subway stations
- Subways
- England -- London
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Underground London
- Stadsspoorwegen
- Londen
- 823.009 22
- TF847.L6 W45 2010eb
- 18.05
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index.
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The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which the London Underground was 'mapped' by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. From late Victorian London to the end of World War II, 'underground writing' created an imaginative world beneath the streets of London. The real subterranean railway was therefore re-enacted in number of ways in writing, including as Dantean Underworld or hell, as a gateway to a utopian future, as psychological looking-glass or as place of safety and security.
The kingdom of shadows: the infernal underground of George Gissing -- The utopian underground of H.G. Wells -- 'The roar of the underground railway': the making of the Tube in the interwar years -- The kingdom of individuals: safety and security on the Tube in the Second World War.
English.
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