Resistance and the city : challenging urban space /
Resistance and the city : challenging urban space /
Challenging urban space
edited by Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer.
- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- Spatial practices ; 27 .
- Spatial Practices 27. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353336. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- General Introduction / Introduction: Challenging Urban Space / Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century / The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque / Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities / The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London / Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain / Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature / The “Capital of Discontent”? Urban Resistance in Manchester / Reimagining Urban Space -- Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography / Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture / Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital / Creative Transformations of the City -- Critical Urban Studies and/in ‘Right to the City’ Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production / Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets / Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry / The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer -- Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer -- Christoph Ehland -- Norbert Lennartz -- Mihaela Irimia -- Kerstin Frank -- Gerd Stratmann -- Pascal Fischer -- Bernd Hirsch -- Stephan Kohl -- Margaret Olin -- Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler -- Jens Martin Gurr -- Marie Hologa -- István D. Rácz -- Blake Fitzpatrick.
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The essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, the contributions remind us of the struggles over the concrete as well as the imaginary space we call the city. The collection maps the various challenges experienced by urban communities, ranging from the unmistakably hegemonic claim of civic festivities in early modern London to the perceived threat posed by newly created parks in the Restoration period and from the dangers of criminality and riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the transformation of the Berlin Wall into souvenirs scattered around the globe.
9789004369207
10.1163/9789004369207 DOI
2018033110
English literature--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Space in literature.
Cities and towns in art.
PR149.C53 / R47 2018
820.9/35841009732
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- General Introduction / Introduction: Challenging Urban Space / Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century / The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque / Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities / The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London / Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain / Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature / The “Capital of Discontent”? Urban Resistance in Manchester / Reimagining Urban Space -- Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography / Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture / Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital / Creative Transformations of the City -- Critical Urban Studies and/in ‘Right to the City’ Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production / Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets / Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry / The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin / Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer -- Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer -- Christoph Ehland -- Norbert Lennartz -- Mihaela Irimia -- Kerstin Frank -- Gerd Stratmann -- Pascal Fischer -- Bernd Hirsch -- Stephan Kohl -- Margaret Olin -- Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler -- Jens Martin Gurr -- Marie Hologa -- István D. Rácz -- Blake Fitzpatrick.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, the contributions remind us of the struggles over the concrete as well as the imaginary space we call the city. The collection maps the various challenges experienced by urban communities, ranging from the unmistakably hegemonic claim of civic festivities in early modern London to the perceived threat posed by newly created parks in the Restoration period and from the dangers of criminality and riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the transformation of the Berlin Wall into souvenirs scattered around the globe.
9789004369207
10.1163/9789004369207 DOI
2018033110
English literature--History and criticism.
Cities and towns in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Space in literature.
Cities and towns in art.
PR149.C53 / R47 2018
820.9/35841009732