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- Title
'Otherwise in London' or, the 'Essence of Things': Modernity and Estrangement in the Nineteenth-Century Cityscape.
- Authors
Wolfreys, Julian
- Abstract
Writers of the early nineteenth century sought to find new ways of writing about the urban landscape when first confronted with the phenomena of London. The very nature of London's rapid growth, its unprecedented scale, and its mere difference from any other urban centre throughout the world marked it out as demanding a different register in prose and poetry. The condition of writing the city, of inventing a new writing for a new experience is explored by familiar texts of urban representation such as by Thomas De Quincey and William Wordsworth, as well as through less widely read authors such as Sarah Green, Pierce Egan, and Robert Southey, particularly his fictional Letters from England.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); MODERNITY in literature; SOCIAL alienation in literature; GREEN, Sarah; EGAN, Pierce; SOUTHEY, Robert, 1774-1843; MEGALOPOLIS
- Publication
Victoriographies, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
2044-2416
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/vic.2015.0181