| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Series |
Anglistik & englischunterricht ; v. 85 |
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Anglistik & Englischunterricht
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change from Victorian London to Global Megacities â#x80;#x93; An Introduction; The Transformation of the London Green Belt: From Sanitary Scenery, Global City Infrastructure to Sustainable Landscape; Strolling the Biophilic City: FlÃØneurism, Urban Nature and Eco-Fiction; Golems, Vampires and a Mechanical Queen: Neo-Gothic Detection and the Psychogeography of Urban Change; Sex and the City: Vicarious Kinaesthesia in the Neo-Victorian Novel; Femme Publique: The Brothel Sex Worker as Anti-FlÃØneuse in the Television Series Maison Close |
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Amsterdams Red Light District and the Global Rise of ProstitutionPostcolonial Periphery as the Neo-Victorian Metropolis: Dublin as Londons Body Double; Politicising Maps and Emotion: Transforming Cities Transforming Texts; Whither Social Reformism in the Neo-Victorian Slum Narrative?; Neo-Victorian Slumming in Londons Gothicity: The Victorian Metropolis Televisual Transformation into ""The City of Dreadful Night; Improvements and Amusements: Urban Geographies of Entertainment in Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century London; Contributors Addresses; Leere Seite |
| Summary |
Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation-- climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation-- expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation-- that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning.
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City planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pleßke, Nora
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Voigts, Eckart
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| ISBN |
3825377555 |
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9783825377557 |
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