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The Cultural Construction of Londonâs East End
Urban Iconography, Modernity and the Spatialisation of Englishness
Series: - Spatial Practices, Volume: 5
Author:
Paul Newlandâs illuminating study explores the ways in which Londonâs East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts â films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irrationality, ethnicity and 'Otherness', class and its related systems of behaviour. The Cultural Construction of Londonâs East End offers detailed examinations of the ways in which the East End has been constructed in a range of texts including BBC Televisionâs EastEnders, Monica Aliâs Brick Lane, Walter Besantâs All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Thomas Burkeâs Limehouse Nights, Peter Ackroydâs Hawksmoor, films such as Piccadilly, Sparrows Canât Sing, The Long Good Friday, From Hell, The Elephant Man, and Spider, and in the work of Iain Sinclair.
Paul Newland was born in east London and grew up in west Essex. He is Lecturer in Film Studies at Aberystwyth University.
Introduction
Development
Apotheosis
The Breath of the East
From Bauhaus to the Blitz and Beyond
After Ronan Point: Re-imagining the Territory
Docklands: The Clearing of the Misery?
After Empire: Tourism, Immigration and Colonisation
Neo-Victorian Urban Visions
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Development
Apotheosis
The Breath of the East
From Bauhaus to the Blitz and Beyond
After Ronan Point: Re-imagining the Territory
Docklands: The Clearing of the Misery?
After Empire: Tourism, Immigration and Colonisation
Neo-Victorian Urban Visions
Bibliography
Filmography
Index