Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK. His previous books include The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue.
Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
This is an important and wide-ranging collection of essays that no Chestertonian can afford to miss, particularly given that Chesterton studies, on an upswing though they may be of late, still constitute a far from oversubscribed area for scholarly attention.
- Keith Wilson, University of Ottawa, ELT, 1880-1920
<i>Chesterton, London and Modernity </i>brings to life the rich, complex world of urban modernity that for Chesterton was focused in the metropolis. Drawing extensively on his novels, short stories, poems and essays, the book represents a breakthrough in studies of both Chesterton and the modern literary imagination, and will appeal to secular and Christian readers alike.
Julia Stapleton, Reader in Politics, Durham University, UK
This lively and varied collection of essays on G. K. Chesterton’s complicated relationship with modernity, and his intricate rendering of London in his writing, does more than offer a corrective to the previous dearth of critical work on Chesterton’s attitudes to the modern city.
Edwardian Culture Network
This book provides a comprehensive study of the myriad connections between Chesterton and London: it places the author in dialogue with his modernist contemporaries, his successors, his Victorian predecessors ... It anticipates future work on the use of setting and geographical spaces in Chesterton.
Emily Bowles, University of York, UK.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Matthew Ingleby
1 Why Chesterton Loved London
Michael D. Hurley
2 The Chestertonian City: A Singularly Plural Approach
Lynne Hapgood
3 Signs Taken for Wonders: Adverts and Sacraments in Chesterton’s London
Mark Knight
4 Chesterton, Machen and the Invisible City
Nick Freeman
5 The Knight Errant in the Street: Chesterton, Childe Roland and the City
Matthew Beaumont
6 Queer Clubs and Queer Trades: G. K. Chesterton, Homosociality and the City
Merrick Burrow
7 Chesterton and the Romance of Burglary
Matthew Ingleby
8 A Playground for Adults: Urban Recreation in Chesterton’s Detective Fiction
Michael Shallcross
9 Estranging the Everyday: G. K. Chesterton’s Urban Modernism
Colin Cavendish-Jones
10 Distributism and the City
Matthew Taunton
Afterword: The Unremarkable Chesterton
Julian Wolfreys
Index
Formerly Continuum Studies in the City; for titles published before September 2012 click here.
The history of literature is tied to the city. From Aeschylus to Addison, Baudelaire to Balzac, Conrad to Coetzee and Dickens to Dostoevsky, writers make sense of the city and shape modern understandings through their reflections and depictions. The urban is a fundamental aspect of a substantial part of the literary canon that is frequently not considered in and of itself because it is so prevalent.
Bloomsbury Studies in the City captures the best contemporary criticism on urban literature and culture. Reading literature, film, drama and poetry in their historical and social context and alongside urban and spatial theory, this series explores the impact of the city on writers and their work.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK. His previous books include The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue.
Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.