LEADER 03731nam 22006372 450 001 9910789720303321 005 20230420205554.0 010 $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 $a20111001d2010|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnderground writing $ethe London tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf /$fDavid Welsh 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (306 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 0 $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 underground in the 1860s to its role in WW2. Each chapter explores perspectives on the underground in a number of writers, starting with George Gissing in the 1880s, moving through the work of H. G. Wells and into the writing of the 1920s & 1930s including Virginia Woolf and George Orwell. It concludes with its portrayal in the fiction, poetry and art (including Henry Moore) of WW2. The approach takes a broadly cultural studies perspective, crossing the boundaries of transport history, literature and London/ urban studies. It draws mainly on fiction but also uses poetry, art, journals, postcards and posters to illustrate. It links the actual underground trains, tracks and stations to the metaphorical world of ‘underground writing’ and places the writing in a social/ political context. 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 615 0$aSubways 615 0$aSubway stations 615 0$aSubways$xHistory. 615 0$aSubway stations$xHistory. 676 $a823.009 686 $a18.05$2bcl 700 $aWelsh$b Dave$f1952-$01577448 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789720303321 996 $aUnderground writing$93856052 997 $aUNINA