| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations |
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Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 5 |
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Spatial practices ; 5. 1871-689X
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| Contents |
The Cultural Construction of London's East End; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Development; II. Apotheosis; III. The Breath of the East; IV. From Bauhaus to the Blitz and Beyond; V. After Ronan Point: Re-imagining the Territory; VI. Docklands: The Clearing of the Misery?; VII. After Empire: Tourism, Immigration and Colonisation; VIII. Neo-Victorian Urban Visions; Bibliography; Filmography; Index |
| Summary |
Paul Newland's illuminating study explores the ways in which London's East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts - films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour. The Cultural Constr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index |
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Includes filmography (pages 297-303) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cultural landscapes -- England -- London
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- England -- London
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National characteristics, English.
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English.
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HISTORY.
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English
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Cultural landscapes
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Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects
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Motion pictures
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National characteristics, English
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| SUBJECT |
East End (London, England) -- In motion pictures
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East End (London, England) -- In popular culture
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| Subject |
England -- London
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England -- London -- East End
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435685482 |
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1435685482 |
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9789401206242 |
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9401206244 |
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9042024542 |
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9789042024540 |
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