Loathsome London
Ruskin, Morris, and Henry Davey'shistory of English Music(1895)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5842940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Zon (0000-0002-7401-8989, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-375 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150309090238 |
| OpenAlex | W2100360983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
The dystopia of the Victorian city is ubiquitous as a trope of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, appearing across a wide array of literature in fiction, poetry, pamphlets, articles, reviews, socio-demographic works, socialist tracts, and miscellaneous papers. Anti-urbanism plays a prominent role in Dickens, Kingsley, and Gissing, to name but a few, and emerges in more pointedly sociological titles such as Andrew Mearns's The Bitter Cry of London (1883); Thomas Escott's England: Its Peoples, Polity, and Pursuits (1885); Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People of London (1889-1902); Ford Madox Ford's The Heart of the Empire (1905); and W. W. Hutching's London Town Past and Present (1909) (Lees, in Fraser and Sutcliffe, 1983: 154; Hulin and Coustillas, 1979: passim ). Themes of urban degradation, overpopulation, squalor, unemployment, lack of education, despair, and pollution fill their pages
Dystopia · Ilya · Overpopulation · Polity · Trope (literature · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |