TY - BOOK ID - 80832754 TI - London's underground spaces PY - 2013 SN - 9780748676088 0748676082 1299802788 9781299802780 0748676074 9780748676071 9780748676071 0748693815 9780748693818 9780748676095 PB - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press DB - UniCat KW - Underground construction KW - Underground architecture KW - Underground design KW - Architecture KW - Building, Underground KW - Subsurface construction KW - Subterranean construction KW - Underground structures KW - Building KW - Earthwork KW - English literature KW - Underground areas in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - London (England) KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832754 AB - The construction of London's underground sewers, underground railway and suburban cemeteries created seismic shifts in the geography and the psychological apprehension of the city. Yet, why are there so few literary and aesthetic interventions in Victorian representations of subterranean spaces? What is London's answer to the Parisian sewers of Victor Hugo or the unflinching realism of EĢmile Zola's underworld? Where is the great English underground novel? This study explores this elision not as an absence of imaginative output, but as a presence and plenitude of anxiety and fears that haunt the pages of Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The way in which these writers negotiated the dirt and messiness of underground spaces reveals both the emergence of Gothic, socialist, and modernist sensibilities, and the way all modern cities deal with what is unseen, intangible and inarticulable. The inclusion of illustrations of Victorian maps, cartoons, photographs and art bring the period to life. ER -