Main entry:

Ashford, David, Dr.

Title & Author:

London underground : a cultural geography / David Ashford.

Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.

Description:

xii, 188 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book of the machine : a user's guide -- Psychopathology of modern space : the underground railways of the inner circle in the Victorian imagination -- The lord of the dynamos : the American invasion of the tube-network in Theodore Dreiser's The stoic (1947) -- Blueprints for Babylon : modernist mapping of the London underground -- Making a home in modernity : the conceptual history of metroland -- Christmas in hell : tube-shelter children in images by Bill Brandt and Henry Moore -- Insurrection in alphabet-city : counterculture in the London underground -- The ghost in the machine : psychogeography in the London underground.

Summary:

"This book provides a theoretical account of the evolution of an archetypal modern environment. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement from the natural topography initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the London Underground is shown to be what French anthropologist Marc Augé has termed non-lieu--a non-place, like a motorway, supermarket or airport lounge, compelled to interpret its relationship to the invisible landscape it traverses through the medium of signs and maps. Surveying an unusually wide variety of material, ranging from the Victorian triple-decker novel, to Modernist art and architecture, to pop music and graffiti, this cultural geography suggests that the Tube-network is a transitional form, linking the spaces of Victorian England to the virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781846318597 (cased)
1846318599 (cased)

Subject:

London Underground Limited.
Subways England London History.
Cultural geography England London.
Métros Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Géographie culturelle Angleterre Londres.
History.
Civilization
Cultural geography
Subways
Untergrundbahn
London (England) Civilization.
England London
London

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283315
Call No.: BIB 221384
Status: Available