G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Beaumont, Matthew, editor literari (editor literari), Ingleby, Matthew, editor literari
Formato: 991005376409706719
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic 2016
Edición:Paperback edition first published
Colección:Bloomsbury Studies in the City
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conté: Why Chesterton Loved London / Michael D. Hurley
  • The Chestertonian City: A Singularly Plural Approach / Lynne Hapgood
  • Signs Taken for Wonders: Adverts and Sacraments in Chesterton's London / Mark Knight
  • Chesterton, Machen and the Invisible City / Nick Freeman
  • The Knight Errant in the Street: Chesterton, Childe Roland and the City / Matthew Beaumont
  • Queer Clubs and Queer Trades: G. K. Chesterton, Homosociality and the City / Merrick Burrow
  • Chesterton and the Romance of Burglary / Matthew Ingleby
  • A Playground for Adults: Urban Recreation in Chesterton's Detective Fiction / Michael Shallcross
  • Estranging the Everyday: G. K. Chesterton's Urban Modernism / Colin Cavendish-Jones
  • Distributism and the City / Matthew Taunton
  • Afterword: The Unremarkable Chesterton / Julian Wolfreys