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Author:   Haewon Hwang (Honorary Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780748676071

ISBN 10:   0748676074
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 July 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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-Siècle 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.

Reviews

"Readers with an interest in how London Underground and other below-the-ground engineering have contributed to the image and reality of the capital will find this a rewarding and fascinating read.--Richard Thorogood ""Underground News: Number 627 """

Readers with an interest in how London Underground and other below-the-ground engineering have contributed to the image and reality of the capital will find this a rewarding and fascinating read.--Richard Thorogood Underground News: Number 627

Author Information

Haewon Hwang completed her BA in Russian Literature at Harvard University and holds an MA and PhD in English from King's College London. She is an Honorary Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong and has taught courses on London, Literary Theory and Global Fictions. She is currently exploring the lives of Russian revolutionary émigrés in fin-de-siècle London and the representation of dirt and contagion in global literatures.

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