‘The Effect of London’: Urban Atmospheres and Alice Meynell’s London Impressions

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Cigdem Talu
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This essay examines urban atmospheres and emotions in the 1898 essay collection London Impressions by British writer, poet and suffragist Alice Meynell. I argue atmospheres are spatialised emotions and investigate the atmospheric dimension of Meynell’s text and her impressions, through a vocabulary of immersion and movement. Within her own manipulation of a ‘visual’ vocabulary, Meynell transforms impressions into atmospheres, the visual into sensorial, moving from the painterly to atmospheric experience, notably through the medium of fog and smoke and other climate indicators. I argue urban atmospheres are the main feature the text brings forth (even through – and perhaps especially because of – the filter of the written word). By probing the application of the history of emotions’ methodologies within architectural and urban history, I argue the concept of ‘atmosphere’ is a productive analytical category to examine visual and textual sources.
“伦敦的影响”:城市氛围和爱丽丝·梅内尔的伦敦印象
本文考察了1898年英国作家、诗人和女权主义者爱丽丝·梅内尔的散文集《伦敦印象》中的城市气氛和情感。我认为氛围是空间化的情感,并通过沉浸和运动的词汇来研究Meynell文本的氛围维度和她的印象。在她自己对“视觉”词汇的操纵中,Meynell将印象转化为氛围,将视觉转化为感官,从绘画到大气体验,特别是通过雾、烟和其他气候指标的媒介。我认为城市氛围是文本带来的主要特征(即使是通过——也许尤其是因为——书面文字的过滤)。通过探索情感的历史方法在建筑和城市历史中的应用,我认为“氛围”的概念是一个富有成效的分析类别,可以检查视觉和文本来源。
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