 | Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945 Subjects: Underground areas -- England -- London -- History; Underground areas -- France -- Paris -- History; Underground areas in literature; City and town life -- England -- London -- History; City and town life -- France -- Paris -- History; The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In... David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds , winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, and Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 , both from Cornell. |
