The Making of London

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London in Contemporary Literature

ISBN: 023023478X
ISBN 13: 9780230234789
Autor: Groes, S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: XIII, 309 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.08.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Provides comprehensive coverage of the past 25 years of contemporary ‘Literary London’ scholarshipand writing in a useful overviewDiscusses the works of key, well-studied ‘London’ writers such as Amis, Rushdie, and McEwanFills a gap in the field by bringing the disparate nature of contemporary London fiction into a single, critical volumeEmbeds London writing in a historical, political and literary context Includes 30 beautiful in-text, black and white images of London

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Beschreibung

London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city.

Autorenporträt

SEBASTIAN GROES is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, London, UK. He has written extensively on modern and contemporary fiction, the London novel, and edited collections including Ian McEwan (Continuum, 2009), Kazuo Ishiguro (Continuum, 2010), Julian Barnes (2011) and Kazuo Ishiguro: Critical Visions of the Novels (Palgrave, 2011).

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