Catharina Löffler

Walking in the City

Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Catharina Löffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and socially significant time in the history of London and make this book a tour of London as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of fictional eighteenth-century urban walkers. Uniting concepts of literary theory, urban studies and psychogeography, Löffler approaches a cross-generic range of literary texts that design uniquely subjective visions and versions of the city. A journey through the fictions and factions of eighteenth-century London, this book provides a compelling read for anyone interested in the history and literature of the English capital.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: J.B. Metzler / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-658-17742-3
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9783658177423
• ISBN-10: 365817742X
• Artikelnr.: 47755549

Autorenporträt

Catharina Löffler holds a degree of English literature and music, and is a lecturer of English literary and cultural studies at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

London in Literatur.- Psychogeography and Psycho-Physical Experiences of the City.- London Walkers.- Mobility in Eighteenth-Century London.

Rezensionen

"This is a worthwhile attempt to bring an important current approach to the urban imaginary to the literature of perambulation in eighteenth-century London. ... Löffler exposes a rich seam of writing, ranging across a wide spectrum of genres, which rein forces current scholarship in presenting the metropolis as a shifting, multivalent kaleidoscope of spaces and experiences: not one London but many Londons, in the representation and imagining of which literary psychogeography plays a significant part." (Elizabeth McKellar,Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 31 (3), 2019)