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- ISBN 9780748676071
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Provides an innovative approach to articulate what ‘underground’ meant to the Victorians
The construction of London’s underground sewers, underground railway and suburban cemeteries created seismic shifts in the geography and the psychological apprehension of the city. Yet, why are there so few literary and aesthetic interventions in Victorian representations of subterranean spaces? What is London’s answer to the Parisian sewers of Victor Hugo or the unflinching realism of Émile Zola’s underworld? Where is the great English underground novel? This study explores this elision not as an absence of imaginative output, but as a presence and plenitude of anxiety and fears that haunt the pages of Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The way in which these writers negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces reveals both the emergence of Gothic, socialist, and modernist sensibilities, and the way all modern cities deal with what is unseen, intangible and inarticulable. The inclusion of illustrations of Victorian maps, cartoons, photographs and art bring the period to life.
Key Features:
An interdisciplinary study that explores Victorian maps, guidebooks, cartoons and advertisements, alongside literature, journals, photographs and art to bring the period to lifeDraws on modern critical frameworks of Derrida, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to recover and to conceptualize the lost spaces of the Victorian cityRedefines ‘underground’ beyond its spatial usage to look at the emergence of underground revolutionary movements in fin-de-siècle LondonArgues for the distinctiveness of London’s underground culture and its influence on other global cities
Haewon Hwang completed her BA in Russian Literature at Harvard University and holds an MA and PhD in English from King's College London. She is an Honorary Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong and has taught courses on London, Literary Theory and Global Fictions. She is currently exploring the lives of Russian revolutionary émigrés in fin-de-siècle London and the representation of dirt and contagion in global literatures.
