LEADER 02914nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910164886303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78138-698-6 010 $a1-84631-597-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000122612 035 $a(EBL)1014751 035 $a(OCoLC)763160588 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000542199 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12177756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000542199 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510725 035 $a(PQKB)10774316 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846315978 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127353 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1014751 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781386989 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1014751 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502111 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000122612 100 $a20100611d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnderground writing$b[electronic resource] $ethe London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf /$fDavid Welsh 210 $aLiverpool $cLiverpool University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84631-223-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [274]-293) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aThe 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 undergrou 606 $aSubways$zEngland$zLondon$vLiterary collections 606 $aSubway stations$zEngland$zLondon$vLiterary collections 606 $aSubways$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory 606 $aSubway stations$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory 607 $aLondon (England)$vLiterary collections 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSubways 615 0$aSubway stations 615 0$aSubways$xHistory. 615 0$aSubway stations$xHistory. 676 $a820.93553 700 $aWelsh$b Dave$f1952-$0928564 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164886303321 996 $aUnderground writing$92086932 997 $aUNINA