Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens

by Julian Wolfreys

Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various literary modes of productions as responses to the city. Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary representations and responses to the city, Writing London follows the shaping of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312214529
• ISBN13: 9780312214524
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"