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Constructing Identities for London, 1750-1950
Arnold
Dana Arnold
ISBN: 9780631216674
Format: Paperback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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London is at once an imagined community and an interaction of histories and place which present the experience of a metropolis. The complexity of the different images of the real and virtual London are revealed in the systems of representation and interpretation, the interaction of civic and national interests and issues of urban planning. The essays in this book examine moments in this diverse set of social, economic and cultural relationships which cohere in the construction of London's identities.
This book examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which its image has been formulated and presented. The chapters address a range of topics from specific questions of architectural style to the relationship between the City of London and London as a metropolis, and explore different methods of constructing urban identities.
| ISBN | 0631216677 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780631216674
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 344 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishers | | Series ISSN | 0141-679 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Art History Special Issues | | Publication date | 05 Dec 1999 | | Height (mm) | 253 | | Library of Congress | DA676.85.M | | Width (mm) | 180 | | DEWEY | 720.9421 | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate | | Pages | 184 | |
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| | | Editor's Introduction by Dana Arnold | | 1 | | | | Aestheticizing the Ancestral City: antiquarianism, topography and the representation of London in the long eighteenth century by Lucy Peltz | | 6 | | | | Peripheral Visions: alternative aspects and rural presences in mid-eighteenth-century London by Elizabeth McKellar | | 29 | | | | 'Beastly Sights': the treatment of animals as a moral theme in representations of London c. 1820-1850 by Diana Donald | | 48 | | | | London Bridge and its Symbolic Identity in the Regency Metropolis: the dialectic of civic and national pride by Dana Arnold | | 79 | | | | Government and the Metropolitan Image: ministers, parliament and the concept of a capital city, 1840-1915 by M. H. Port | | 101 | | | | Rebuilding 'The Heart of the Empire': bank headquarters in the City of London, 1919-1939 by Iain S. Black | | 127 | | | | Benjamin's Paris, Freud's Rome: whose London? by Adrian Rifkin | | 153 | | | | Abstracts and Notes on Contributors | | 167 | | | | Index | | 171 |
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