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Writing London and the Thames estuary : 1576-2016
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ISBN: 900434666X 9789004346666 9789004346659 9004346651 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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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.

Three men in a boat : Three men on the bummel
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ISBN: 1280595183 9786613625014 0191610798 0191611328 9780191610790 0192880330 9780192880338 9781280595189 6613625019 9780191611322 0191921149 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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'Three Men in a Boat' describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford, and provides snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s. 'Three Men on the Bummel' records a similar escapade some ten years later, when the trio cycle through the Black Forest, at the height of the new bicycling craze.

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