Underground writing [[electronic resource] ] : the London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf / / David Welsh

• Autore: Welsh Dave <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.93553
• Soggetto topico: Subways - England - London; Subway stations - England - London; Subways - England - London - History; Subway stations - England - London - History
• Soggetto geografico: London (England) Literary collections
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 undergrou
• Titolo autorizzato: Underground writing
• ISBN: 1-78138-698-6; 1-84631-597-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164886303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II