Walking in the City Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in
In this book, Catharina Löffler 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, h
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Walking in the City Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London
Walking in the City
Catharina Löffler
Walking in the City Urban Experience and Literary Psychogeography in Eighteenth-Century London
Catharina Löffler Giessen, Germany Die Dissertation wurde durch das Graduiertenstipendium der JLU gefördert
ISBN 978-3-658-17742-3 ISBN 978-3-658-17743-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-17743-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017936479 J.B. Metzler © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This J.B. Metzler imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH The registered company address is: Abraham-Lincoln-Str. 46, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany
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Prefatory Remarks How does the world enter the text? There is a long history of attempts to understand the world-production or 'worldedness' of literature, from the Aristotelian concept of mimesis to Marxist concepts of reflection and postmodernist metafiction. Catharina Löffler's dissertation on eighteenthcentury London writings profits from these traditions as well as from more recent research on concepts of space in literary and cultural studies. Her model for unlocking experiences of urban spaces is psychogeography, a term that originated in the French postwar avantgarde and that has been adopted as a creative principle by a number of contemporary British writers from Peter Ackroyd to Will Self. But how useful is psychogeography for literary and cultural studies? Löffler is certainly right to draw attention to the danger of using this term ubiquitously and uncritically. Instead, she aims for unprecedented analytic and methodological precision in her definition of psychogeography for literary studies. Her approach is even more original a
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