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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.
English literature --- Geography in literature. --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- London (England) --- Thames River (England) --- Thames River Estuary (England) --- Thames Estuary (England) --- River Thames (England) --- In literature.
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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.
Male friendship --- Boats and boating --- Humorous stories, English. --- English humorous stories --- English fiction --- English wit and humor --- Thames River (England) --- Black Forest (Germany) --- Forêt Noire (Germany) --- Schwarzwald (Germany) --- River Thames (England) --- English --- Bicycle touring --- Backpack cycling --- Bicycle camping --- Bicycle tours --- Touring, Bicycle --- Camping --- Cycling --- Travel --- British --- Ethnology --- Boat handling --- Boating --- Boats --- Boats, Primitive --- Pleasure boating --- Recreation boating --- Recreational boating --- Recreational boats --- Watercraft --- Locomotion --- Ship handling --- Aquatic sports --- Boatbuilding --- Sailing --- Ships --- Recreational use --- Fiction.
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