02914nam 2200649 a 450 991016488630332120200520144314.01-78138-698-61-84631-597-2(CKB)2670000000122612(EBL)1014751(OCoLC)763160588(SSID)ssj0000542199(PQKBManifestationID)12177756(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542199(PQKBWorkID)10510725(PQKB)10774316(UkCbUP)CR9781846315978(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127353(MiAaPQ)EBC1014751(UkCbUP)CR9781781386989(Au-PeEL)EBL1014751(CaPaEBR)ebr10502111(EXLCZ)99267000000012261220100611d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnderground writing[electronic resource] the London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf /David WelshLiverpool Liverpool University Pressc20101 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84631-223-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-293) and index.The kingdom of shadows: the infernal underground of George Gissing -- The utopian underground of H. G. Wells -- 'The roar of the underground railway': the making of the Tube in the interwar years -- The kingdom of individuals: safety and security on the Tube in the Second World War.The purpose of this book is to explore the ways in which the London Underground/ Tube was 'mapped' by a number of writers from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf. From late Victorian London to the end of the World War II, 'underground writing' created an imaginative world beneath the streets of London. The real subterranean railway was therefore re-enacted in number of ways in writing, including as Dantean Underworld or hell, as gateway to a utopian future, as psychological looking- glass or as place of safety and security.The book is a chronological study from the opening of the first undergrouSubwaysEnglandLondonLiterary collectionsSubway stationsEnglandLondonLiterary collectionsSubwaysEnglandLondonHistorySubway stationsEnglandLondonHistoryLondon (England)Literary collectionsElectronic books.SubwaysSubway stationsSubwaysHistory.Subway stationsHistory.820.93553Welsh Dave1952-928564MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164886303321Underground writing2086932UNINA