TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman,Nicholas
ED  - Oxford University Press.
TI  - Conceiving the city: London, literature, and art 1870-1914 
SN  - 9780199218189
AV  - PR8471 .F74 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English literature
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - History
KW  - Art and literature
KW  - Illustrations
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - In literature
KW  - In art
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-230) and index; Contents; List of Illustrations xi; Introduction: The Problem of London 1; Accumulating Impressions 1; The City of the World 4; Passing the Baton 19; Being Realistic 26; 1. `Inclusion and Confusion': Empiricist London 35; Fact versus Fiction 36; Dealing with Dickens (and Zola) 43; `A restricted number of natural facts': London under the; Microscope 47; Slumming It 54; Telling Tales 65; `O wot 'orrid langwidge': Talking to the Cockneys 70; The Exact Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes 80; Stories without Ends 86; 2. Shadows and Fog: Impressionist London 89; `The almost awful clarity of Henry James' 89; Paternal Prompting 97; Floating like a Butterfly: Whistler 103; Impressionist Cityscapes 112; ImitatingWhistler 118; Imitating Monet 129; `Fleeting and transitory things': Speeding London 134; Towards the Within 143; 3. `That untravell'd world': symbolist London 147; Doors in the Wall 147; Mysteries and Initiations 149; Fashioning the Symbol 170; Realist Veils 181; Phantasmagoria: The Street beyond The Street 196; An Immense Darkness 201; Afterword 206; Bibliography 210; Index 231
ER  -