The Cultural Construction of Londons East End: Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness (Spatial Practices, 5)

ISBN: 9042024542

Author: NEWLAND PAUL

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Paul Newlands illuminating study explores the ways in which Londons East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts - films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour.The Cultural Construction of Londons East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Televisions EastEnders, Monica Alis Brick Lane, Walter Besants All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Thomas Burkes Limehouse Nights, Peter Ackroyds Hawksmoor, films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Cant Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider, and in the work of Iain Sinclair.