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Transitional London: Anxiety and urban representation in the British novel, 1859--1934 (Dominica, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transitional London: Anxiety and urban representation in the British novel, 1859--1934 (Dominica, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys)./
Author:	Keyser, Glenn.
Description:	343 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0510.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3120960
ISBN:	0496683154

Transitional London: Anxiety and urban representation in the British novel, 1859--1934 (Dominica, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys).
Keyser, Glenn.

Transitional London: Anxiety and urban representation in the British novel, 1859--1934 (Dominica, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys). - 343 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0510.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2003.

This dissertation analyzes the effects of urbanization on mental life and on literature in London from 1859 to 1934. I explore what it means to be a Londoner by arguing that the major chroniclers of London during this period cope with the anxieties associated with urban growth in ways that are historically and culturally specific to London, and thus clearly comparable to each other. The novels I discuss include: Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886), Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1905), Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), and Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark (1934). Each book captures London at a moment of profound transition in which changes in the urban environment force those who live there to adjust to new anxieties. Despite the variety of strategies that each author represents, however, each is finally derived from a common heritage---a heritage that is rooted in the demographics, geography, and infrastructure of London, as well as in the social mores of London's citizenry. James, for instance, captures London at a moment when inner-city neighborhoods were beginning to disintegrate, whereas Conrad, twenty years later, captures London at a moment when the bureaucratic character of urban life was becoming overwhelming. Each author represents his characters as employing what are in many ways distinct strategies for dealing with these quite different problems. And yet, in representing reactions to urban anxiety, both authors employ the same images of urban upheaval that were unique to the tradition of London literature as it developed in the years following the major European revolutions of the nineteenth century, thus revealing a clear structural resemblance between the psychic life of Londoners in these otherwise very different novels. I rely on the object-relations theories of Melanie Klein to theorize the defense mechanisms that Londoners use to manage urban anxiety, as well as to categorize the psychological foundations for stylistic tropes and figures associated with urban literature of London during this period, such as the crowd, the stranger, the wasteland, and the labyrinth.

ISBN: 0496683154Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Transitional London: Anxiety and urban representation in the British novel, 1859--1934 (Dominica, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys).
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