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The Postpastoral City Get access

Matthew M. Lambert
in The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s
Published: 16 October 2020
... Yonnondio: From the Thirties (1974) envision ways that working-class characters attempt to create alternative social and environmental interactions in vacant lots and neighborhood dumps. In Native Son (1939), Richard Wright uses rats to symbolize the poor economic and environmental...
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Sewer Monsters Get access

Simon Young
in The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends
Published: 27 June 2022
...This legend concerns the folklore of sewers. Horrors (including rats and wild pigs) live in the London sewers where intrepid explorers sometimes meet them. Folklore Legends London Rats Sewers Summary: Monsters live in the London sewers. Earliest Attestation: a possible reference...