London Fragments: A Literary Expedition

by Rüdiger Görner

Overview

Meet Shakespeare, Heine and Hogarth south of the river, find Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, discovers Blake and Trollope in Westminster, happen on the Carlyles in Chelsea, come across John Keats in beautiful Hampstead and search for Bacon and Hanif Kureishi in the London suburbs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910376317
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	05/15/2015
Series:	Armchair Traveller
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	613 KB

About the Author

Rüdiger Görner is Head of the School of Languages at Queen Mary, University of London. He is also Founding Director of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations and a literary critic who has written for leading European journals including Die Zeit, Die Presse, and the New Zurich newspaper. Görner has written and edited a variety of academic and literary publications, including most recently biographies of Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     viii
Preface to the English Edition     x
Arriving in the Nowhere by the Thames     1
(Un-) Real City - London as a Literary Theme     15
London Underground     37
What Defines London     49
The Green In The Square     59
Southwark, or where Late Modernism Builds on Primitive Rocks     65
The City - the Heart of which World?     75
Nocturnal Wanderings through London     97
The Omega of Bloomsbury     109
In the London of Emigrants     126
Westminster - Poetry in the Shadow of Power     145
In London with Fontane     160
Chelsea, for Example     175
Hampstead as an Intellectual Way of Life     188
En Route to a London Man of Letters     202
Suburbia as Literary Locale - Notes from London's Suburbs     210
Epilogue, Or: The Path to Freedom with Variations on a Theme in Oscar Wilde's Poem 'Symphony In Yellow'     223
Biographical Index     231
Bibliography     249