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| Author | : Erik Bond |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081421049X |
While seventeenth-century London may immediately evoke images of Shakespeare and thatched roof-tops and nineteenth-century London may call forth images of Dickens and cobblestones, a popular conception of eighteenth-century London has been more difficult to imagine. In fact, the immense variety of textual traditions, metaphors, classical allusions, and contemporary contexts that eighteenth-century writers use to illustrate eighteenth-century London may make eighteenth-century London seem more strange and foreign to twenty-first-century readers than any of its other historical reincarnations. Indeed, "imagining" a familiar, unified London was precisely the task that occupied so many writers in London after the 1666 Fire decimated the City and the 1688 Glorious Revolution destabilized the English monarchy's absolute power. In the authoritative void created by these two events, writers in London faced not only the problem of how to guide readers' imaginations to a unified conception of London, but also the problem of how to govern readers whom they would never meet. Erik Bond argues that Restoration London's rapidly changing administrative geography as well as mid-eighteenth-century London's proliferation of print helped writers generate several strategies to imagine that they could control not only other Londoners but also their interior selves. As a result, Reading London encourages readers to respect the historical alterity or "otherness" of eighteenth-century literature while recognizing that these historical alternatives prove that our present problems with urban societies do not have to be this way. In fact, the chapters illustrate how eighteenth-century writers gesture towards solutions to problems that urban citizens now face in terms of urban terror, crime, policing, and communal conduct.
| Author | : G. Pope |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2015-12-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137342463 |
A study of London suburban-set writing, exploring the links between place and fiction. This book charts a picture of evolving themes and concerns around the legibility and meaning of habitat and home for the individual, and the serious challenges that suburbia sets for literature.
| Author | : William Cederwell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2017-11-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351239058 |
Reading London in Wartime: Blitz, the People and Propaganda in 1940s Literature presents an expansive variety of writers and genres, including non-fiction and film approaches, to build a comprehensive social picture of the atmosphere during wartime London. From blitz and austerity to the nagging insistency of propaganda, this volume examines the representation of London in wartime and early post-war literature through each writer’s unique perspective on the pressures of 1940s city life. Exploring the use of London imagery, this book considers how literature redirects attention to individual, subjective experience at a time of enforced co-operation, uniformity and community. Unlike government information films and news broadcasts, which often used London to prop up prevailing clichés and stereotypes, and encouraged patriotic support for the war, literature had the freedom to express more recalcitrant truths. London writing of the 1940s was not a literature of opposition or dissent, but in offering more nuanced depictions of the period, it was a counterweight to propaganda and the general war temperament. In writing, the city becomes a more complex place, no longer the easy symbol of defiance and stoicism, of the shared sacrifice of ration book and war work.
| Author | : Kate Stayman-London |
| Publisher | : Dial Press Trade Paperback |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2020-07-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525510443 |
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| Author | : Stephanie Buckwalter |
| Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2017-07-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0766084914 |
Jack Londons stories of adventure in the early twentieth century captured the imagination of the American public. As he ventured around the United States and the globe, he documented his adventures through his writing. Through excerpts and critical analysis, readers will examine Londons most famous works (The Call of the Wild, To Build a Fire), which are dramatic and compelling stories of man versus nature and versus himself. Other works explore the human condition, particularly the plight of the poor and working class. An examination of the autobiographical nature of many of Londons stories gives the reader a unique insight into the interaction between a writers world and his work.
| Author | : Roderick Hunt |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robin Campbell |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2018-02-06 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1134984723 |
Hearing children read is a central activity in the primary classroom, and this book provides a detailed description and analysis of children reading to their teachers and the teachers' response.
| Author | : Susanna Davidson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9781409581024 |
A simple and dramatic introduction to the Great Fire of London in 1666 - what caused it, how it spread, how it was put out and how the city was rebuilt. Colourful illustrations on every page help bring history to life, along with maps and photographs of historical evidence and simple informative text. Ideal for homework and school projects - the Great Fire of London is now a compulsory National Curriculum topic for history at Key Stage 2.
| Author | : Ben Knights |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0826487009 |
Provides composition techniques that help students to develop critical reading skills.
| Author | : Suzanne Horton |
| Publisher | : Learning Matters |
| Total Pages | : 153 |
| Release | : 2018-11-20 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 152645484X |
The book covers research, theory and practical application of developing higher level readers within the primary classroom.
