Recently added articles from Studies in the Literary Imagination:
Scripting Urban Culture I.(Work overview)
Mar 22, 2007; Brazeau, Robert ... <Text rich="yes"> The papers collected in this issue, the first of two to be published by this journal on representations of the city, cohere around the notion that the city is, in Walter Benjamin's important formulation, a <Italic>shauplatz</Italic> or theatre where investments in ...
Romantic London: John Corry and the Georgic City.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; Mulvihill, James D. ... <Text rich="yes"> The idea of Romantic London is as immense and as contradictory as the idea of Romanticism itself. For William Blake, probably its most visionary observer, it is literally the universe. Blake's London is at once poignantly local, its immediate environs reflecting a life ...
Scandals in Sodom: The Victorian City's Queer Streets.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; Delgado, Anne ... <Text rich="yes"> In 1845, Friedrich Engels described the urban territory inhabited by the English working classes as an "ill-built, ill-kept labyrinth of dwellings" (582). Forty years later, the filthy, labyrinthine tangle of streets through which W. T. Stead, the editor of the ...
From Arsonists and Bastards to Vampires and Zombies: Urban Spatio-Pathologies in Strindberg's Chamber Plays.(August Strindberg)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; Stenport, Anna Westerstahl ... <Text rich="yes"> When August Strindberg returned to his native Stockholm after nearly fifteen years of self-imposed exile in Paris, Berlin, and other parts of Europe, he also returned to writing plays. During the first decade of the twentieth century, he wrote his most formally audacious ...
Boardinghouse Life, Boardinghouse Letters.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; Faflik, David ... <Text rich="yes"> In 1842, journalist-poet Walt Whitman could pronounce "the universal Yankee nation" "a boarding people." He went on to explain that "[m]arried men and single men, old women and pretty girls; milliners and masons; cobblers, colonels, and counter-jumpers; tailors and ...
Empty Spaces: Remapping the Chaotic Milieu of the Modernist City in "Sunrise".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; Sperb, Jason ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> The history of modernism is caught between two poles of attraction: on the one hand, a visionary utopianism, built around an ideal of mass production, rational organization and machine technology harnessed to an aestheticized sense of ...
Totalizing the City: Eliot, de Certeau, and the Evolution of "The Waste Land".(Michel de Certeau, T.S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; Badenhausen, Richard ... <Text rich="yes"> In his 1974 essay, "Walking in the City," Michel de Certeau theorizes a vision of urban landscape that depends on descending from "above"--a perspective from which the view is rigid, panoptic, totalizing, and false--into "the city's grasp" (92), where one may interact ...