Posted on 1 July, 2004
Space, Voice and Community in London
Dr Andrew Gordon (English) has received an AHRB research leave award to work on Space, Voice and Community in Early Modern London. The book explores the connections between literature and the spatial and phenomenological practices of urban inhabitation in the early modern period. Examining the body of specific cultural practices through which the communities of London traditionally registered their identification with their city, the project explores the conceptual force of these ways of understanding place and space, which continue to register in literary production despite disruption to spatial rituals. Equally the project looks to the discursive continuities between everyday activities and literary production, examining the imaginative resouces presented by a range of cultural practices of textual and image-based signification within the urban environment, from grafitti to pub signs.