Description: Conceiving the City : London, Literature, and Art 1, Hardcover by Freeman, Nicholas, ISBN 0199218188, ISBN-13 9780199218189, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to represent London in literature and art. Breaking away from the language and style of Dickens and the static panorama paintings of William Powell Frith, major figures such as Henry James and J. M. Whistler, and, crucially, less-celebrated authors such as Arthur Machen, Edwin Pugh, and George Egerton bent realism into exciting new shapes. In the naturalism of George Gissing and Arthur Morrison, the fragmentary impressions of Ford Madox Ford, and the brooding mystery of Alvin Langdon Coburn's photogravures, London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art. Although many of these insights would be dismissed or at least downplayed by subsequent generations, the ideas evolved during the period from 1870 to 1914 anticipate not only the work of high modernists such as Eliot and Woolf, but also that of later urban theorists such as Foucault and de Certeau, and the novels and travelogues of contemporary London writers Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair. Nicholas Freeman recovers a sense of late-Victorian London as a subject for dynamic theoretical and aesthetic experiments, and shows, in stimulating analyses of Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Arthur Symons, and others how much of our understanding of urban space we owe to eminent (and not so eminent) Victorian figures. Written in a clear and accessible style, th restores a much-needed historical perspective to our engagement with the metropolis.
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Book Title: Conceiving the City : London, Literature, and Art 1870-1914
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Conceiving the City : London, Literature, and Art 1870-1914
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Europe / Great Britain / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Weight: 18.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Nicholas Freeman
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
