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1014617545 
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Transforming cities : discourses of urban change / Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke, Eckart Voigts (eds.)
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Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2018] |
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English |
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© 2018 |
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1 Online-Ressource (245 Seiten) : Illustrationen |
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ISBN: |
978-3-8253-7755-7
Weitere Ausgaben: 978-3-8253-6749-7 (Printausgabe)
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Cover -- Contents -- Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change from Victorian London to Global Megacities â An Introduction -- The Transformation of the London Green Belt: From Sanitary Scenery, Global City Infrastructure to Sustainable Landscape -- Strolling the Biophilic City: Flâneurism, 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-Flâneuse in the Television Series Maison Close -- Amsterdams Red Light District and the Global Rise of Prostitution -- Postcolonial 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 |
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eBook code: |
ZDB-30-PQE |
