TY - BOOK ID - 78676407 TI - Writing London and the Thames estuary : 1576-2016 PY - 2017 SN - 900434666X 9789004346666 9789004346659 9004346651 PB - Leiden : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Geography in literature. KW - National characteristics, English, in literature. KW - Literature and society KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Topography in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Social aspects KW - London (England) KW - Thames River (England) KW - Thames River Estuary (England) KW - Thames Estuary (England) KW - River Thames (England) KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676407 AB - Writing London and the Thames Estuary is an ambitious study of place and identity which resonates deeply against the troubled politics of contemporaneity. Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre, tourist literature, topography, chorology and sociological writing, Len Platt traces the making of the estuary as margin by a metropolis that has been dependent on this region, sometimes for its very survival. Drawing on writers and artists ranging from Middleton, Defoe, Pepys, Dickens, Conrad and T.S. Eliot through to such contemporary figures as Iain Sinclair, Nicola Barker, Tracy Emin and Billy Childish, Platt offers a fascinating insight into the formation of ‘estuary grotesque’, the social dismissal out of which post-Brexit politics have emerged to such controversy. ER -