| Descript |
xi, 235 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Spatial Practices and Realignments; Digging through the Layers; Which Way to the Underground?; 1. The Incontinent City: Sewers, Disgust and Liminality; The 'Great Unwashed' and the Incontinent City; Literature of Filth/Visions of the Sublime; Tainted Love: Prostitutes and Sexual Contagion; Reading the Body of the Prostitute; Imperial Impurities/Foreign Filth; Embanking the Empire: Literature of Otherness; Beyond Cleanliness; 2. Tubing It: Speeding Through Modernity in the London Underground; Spatial Annihilation, Production and Representation; Recuperating Meaning in the Underground; Temporal Dislocations; Failure and Psychological Disjunctions; Disembarkation; 3. The (Un)Buried Life: Death in the Modern Necropolis; The Disposal of the Dead: Shifting Attitudes towards the Corpse; Geographies of the Dead; Resurrection, Resurrectionists and the Revenant; Feminine Resurrections and Spectral Dispossessions; Underground Mourning, Memory and Memorabilia; Final Exhumation; 4. Underground Revolutions: Invisible Networks of Terror in Fin-de-Siecle London; Infernal Machines and Diabolical Plots; 'Fenian Fire': Unfolding the Revolutionary Plot; Middle-class Socialists and Anarchic Aristocrats; Domesticating Terror; Language of Rebellion/Performing Terror; From Individual Action to Existential Inertia; After the 'Revolution'.; Conclusion; Bibliography. |
| Note |
400 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| ISBN |
9780748676088 (e-book) |
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9780748676071 (hbk.) |
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