Pietrzak-Franger / Pleßke / Voigts Transforming Cities

Discourses of Urban Change
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8253-7755-7
Verlag: Universitätsverlag WINTER
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation - climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation - expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation - that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change. Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, 'slumming' in the TV series 'Maison Close', 'Ripper Street' and 'Penny Dreadful' as well as Amsterdam's Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pietrzak-Franger, Monika

Pleßke, Nora

Voigts, Eckart

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Contents;6
3;Transforming Cities: Discourses of Urban Change from Victorian London to Global Megacities – An Introduction;8
4;The Transformation of the London Green Belt: From Sanitary Scenery, Global City Infrastructure to Sustainable Landscape;28
5;Strolling the Biophilic City: Flâneurism, Urban Nature and Eco-Fiction;44
6;Golems, Vampires and a Mechanical Queen: Neo-Gothic Detection and the Psychogeography of Urban Change;60
7;Sex and the City: Vicarious Kinaesthesia in the Neo-Victorian Novel;76
8;Femme Publique: The Brothel Sex Worker as Anti-Flâneuse in the Television Series Maison Close;92
9;Amsterdams Red Light District and the Global Rise of Prostitution;108
10;Postcolonial Periphery as the Neo-Victorian Metropolis: Dublin as Londons Body Double;128
11;Politicising Maps and Emotion: Transforming Cities Transforming Texts;146
12;Whither Social Reformism in the Neo-Victorian Slum Narrative?;166
13;Neo-Victorian Slumming in Londons Gothicity: The Victorian Metropolis Televisual Transformation into "The City of Dreadful Night";182
14;Improvements and Amusements: Urban Geographies of Entertainment in Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century London;212
15;Contributors Addresses;242
16;Leere Seite;244