Walking in the City: Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London [Paperback]

In this book, Catharina L?ffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insights into a culturally, historically and socially significant time in the history of London and make this book a tour of London as seen and heard through the eyes and ears of fictional eighteenth-century urban walkers. Uniting concepts of literary theory, urban studies and psychogeography, L?ffler approaches a cross-generic range of literary texts that design uniquely subjective visions and versions of the city. A journey through the fictions and factions of eighteenth-century London, this book provides a compelling read for anyone interested in the history and literature of the English capital.London in Literatur.- Psychogeography and Psycho-Physical Experiences of the City.- London Walkers.- Mobility in Eighteenth-Century London.

This is a worthwhile attempt to bring an important current approach to the urban imaginary to the literature of perambulation in eighteenth-century London. & L?ffler exposes a rich seam of writing, ranging across a wide spectrum of genres, which rein forces current scholarship in presenting the metropolis as a shifting, multivalent kaleidoscope of spaces and experiences: not one London but many Londons, in the representation and imagining of which literary psychogeography plays a significant part. (Elizabeth McKellar,Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 31 (3), 2019)

Catharina L?ffler holds a degree of English literature and music, and is a lecturer of English literary and cultural studies at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany.

In this book, Catharina L?ffler traces the psycho-physical experiences of London walkers in eighteenth-century literature. For this purpose, readings of fascinating, exciting, comical and sometimes disturbing texts grant insightsl#'