Main entry:

Freeman, Nicholas.

Title & Author:

Conceiving the city : London, literature, and art 1870-1914 / Nicholas Freeman.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Description:

x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-230) and index.
Introduction : the problem of London (starting p. 1) -- 1 'Inclusion and confusion' : empiricist London (starting p. 35) -- Fact versus fiction (starting p. 36) -- Dealing with Dickens (and Zola) (starting p. 43) -- 'A restricted number of natural facts' : London under the microscope (starting p. 47) -- Slumming it (starting p. 54) -- Telling tales (starting p. 65) -- 'O wot 'orrid langwidge' : talking to the cockneys (starting p. 70) -- The exact knowledge of Sherlock Holmes (starting p. 80) -- Stories without ends (starting p. 86) -- 2 Shadows and fog : Impressionist London (starting p. 89) -- 'The almost awful clarity of Henry James' (starting p. 89) -- Paternal prompting (starting p. 97) -- Floating like a butterfly : Whistler (starting p. 103) -- Impressionist cityscapes (starting p. 112) -- Imitating Whistler (starting p. 118) -- Imitating Monet (starting p. 129) -- 'Fleeting and transitory things' : speeding London (starting p. 134) -- Towards the within (starting p. 143) -- 3 'That untravell'd world' : symbolist London (starting p. 147) -- Doors in the wall (starting p. 147) -- Mysteries and initiations (starting p. 149) -- Fashioning the symbol (starting p. 170) -- Realist veils (starting p. 181)

Summary:

'Conceiving the City' looks at how major writers and artists represented London in fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It shows that late-Victorian fin-de-siècle London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art as writers and artists broke with earlier tradition and bent realism into exciting new shapes.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Klappentext

ISBN:

9780199218189 (acid-free)
0199218188 (acid-free)

Subject:

English literature England London History and criticism.
Literature and society England History.
Art and literature England History.
English literature Illustrations.
Littérature anglaise Angleterre Londres Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société Angleterre Histoire.
Art et littérature Angleterre Histoire.
18.05 English literature.
20.70 European art.
Art and literature.
English literature.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Literature and society.
Künste
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Kunst.
Englische Literatur Motiv London.
Kunst Motiv London.
Englische Literatur London Geschichte 19. Jh.
Englische Literatur London Geschichte 20. Jh.
Kultur London Geschichte 19. Jh.
Kultur London Geschichte 20. Jh.
Literatur Englisch Motiv (Literatur) Grossbritannien London Geschichte 1870-1914.
Kunst Motiv (Kunst) Grossbritannien London Geschichte 1870-1914.
Kultur : Geschichte.
London (England) Intellectual life.
London (England) In literature.
London (England) In art.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle.
England.
England London.
Londen.
London Motiv Englische Literatur.
London Motiv Kunst.
London Motiv (Literatur) Englisch Geschichte 1870-1914.
London Motiv (Kunst) Geschichte 1870-1914.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Illustrated works.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257365
Call No.: BIB 187849
Status: Available