Imagined Londons explores the diverse ways that Britain’s ‘global city’ has been imagined and represented in literature, history, the arts, and popular culture, from the mid–nineteenth century to the present day. American and British contributors examine a variety of topics, ranging from poetry to architecture, from dance music to gay pornography, from ‘tube’ maps to the role of Bangladeshi communities in shaping contemporary London politics. Broadly interdisciplinary and deeply attentive to London’s historical diversity, the book is unified by its attention to a single question: How have the many imaginations and representations of London shaped—and been shaped by—history and culture? The answers provided within this volume offer the chance to view London in surprising new ways.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. IMAGINING LONDONS
Pamela K. Gilbert
1. THE VICTORIAN SOCIAL BODY AND URBAN CARTOGRAPHY
Pamela K. Gilbert
2. OTHER LONDONERS: RACE AND CLASS IN PLAYS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LONDON LIFE
Heidi J. Holder
3. ‘MEN IN PETTICOATS’: BORDER CROSSINGS IN THE QUEER CASE OF MR. BOULTON AND MR. PARK
Morris B. Kaplan
4. ROMANCING THE CITY: ARTHUR SYMONS AND THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN 1890s LONDON
Michelle Sipe
5. THE METROPOLE AS ANTIPODES: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN LONDON AND CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL IDENTITY
Angela Woollacott
6. MODERNIST SPACE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF UNDERGROUND LONDON
David L. Pike
7. LONDON AND THE TOURIST IMAGINATION
David Gilbert and Fiona Henderson
8. BREAD AND (ROCK) CIRCUSES: SITES OF SONIC CONFLICT IN LONDON
Alexei Monroe
9. THE POLITICAL CONSTRUCTION OF DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES IN THE GLOBAL CITY
John Eade, Isabelle Fremeaux, and David Garbin
10. LONELY LONDONER: V. S. NAIPAUL AND ‘THE GOD OF THE CITY’
Gautam Premnath
11. UNDOING LONDON OR, URBAN HAUNTS: THE FRACTURING OF REPRESENTATION IN THE 1990s
Julian Wolfreys
12. LONDON 2000: THE MILLENNIAL IMAGINATION IN A CITY OF MONUMENTS
Michael Levenson
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Pamela K. Gilbert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of
Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels and the coeditor (with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie) of
Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, also published by SUNY Press.
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