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The cultural construction of London's East End : urban iconography, modernity and the spatialisation of Englishness by Paul Newland

By: Newland, PaulSeries: Spatial Practices ; 5Publication details: Amsterdam New York Rodopi 2008 Description: 321p 23cmISBN: 9789042024540Subject(s): Cultural landscapes -- England -- London | Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- England -- London | National characteristics, English | East End (London, England) -- In motion pictures | East End (London, England) -- In popular cultureLOC classification: PN1995.9. L57 | N49 2008
Contents:
Development -- Apotheosis -- The breath of the east -- From Bauhaus to the blitz and beyond -- After Ronan point : re-imagining the territory -- Docklands : the clearing of the misery? -- After empire : tourism, immigration, and colonisation -- Neo-Victorian urban visions. --- "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 Construction of London's East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Television's EastEnders, Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Walter Besant's All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights, Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor, films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Can't Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider, and in the work of Iain Sinclair. "
List(s) this item appears in: London - Docklands | London - Caribbean immigration & immigration labour | Late 19C Chinese in London | London and Immigration
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Development -- Apotheosis -- The breath of the east -- From Bauhaus to the blitz and beyond -- After Ronan point : re-imagining the territory -- Docklands : the clearing of the misery? -- After empire : tourism, immigration, and colonisation -- Neo-Victorian urban visions. --- "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 Construction of London's East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Television's EastEnders, Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Walter Besant's All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights, Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor, films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Can't Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider, and in the work of Iain Sinclair. "