Catharina Löffler

Walking in the City (eBook, PDF)

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.

Contents

• London in Literature
• Psychogeography and Psycho-Physical Experiences of the City
• London Walkers
• Mobility in Eighteenth-Century London

Target Groups

• Lecturers and students of (English) literary and cultural studies, history, urban studies
• Historians, journalists, cultural scientists, literary scholars, sociologists, urban researchers

The Author 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
• Seitenzahl: 357
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783658177430
• Artikelnr.: 53061785

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)