The Swarming Streets

Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-1663-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 154, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Costerus New Series

Ranging from the turn of the nineteenth century to the last few years of the twentieth century, The Swarming Streets explores the representation of London in the last century through some of the major writers who have made it the foundation of their work. The natural companion to recent major histories and biographies of the metropolis, students and researchers alike will find major new essays on Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Storm Jameson, E. Nesbit, Julian Barnes, Iain Sinclair, Graham Swift, B. S. Johnson, and Andrea Levy and others. Drawing on a rich variety of critical approaches, each essay is distinct as well as contributing to an overall analysis of literary representations of twentieth-century London.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Phillips, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Lawrence PHILLIPS: Introduction: The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London
2. Nadine ATTEWELL: A Risky Business: Going Out in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson
3. Francesca FRIGERIO: “A Filmless London”: Flânerie and Urban Culture in Dorothy Richardson’s Articles for Close Up
4. Vicki TROMANHAUSER: Virgina Woolf’s London and the Archaeology of Character
5. Jenny BAVIDGE: Treasure Seekers in the City: London in the Novels of E. Nesbit
6. Chiara BRIGANTI: “Thou art full of Stirs, a tumultuous City”: Storm Jameson and London in the 1920s
7. Sara WASSON: “A Network of Inscrutable Canyons”: Wartime London’s Sensory Landscapes
8. Ingrid GUNBY: Tales from the Crypt: Wartime London in Graham Swift’s Shuttlecock
9. Philip TEW: My Doingthings: London According to B. S. Johnson
10. Rob BURTON: Cheerleading and Charting the Cosmopolis: London as Linear Narrative and Contested Space
11. Joe BROOKER: Shades of the Eighties: The Colour of Memory
12. Keith WILSON: Julian Barnes and the Marginalisation of Metropolitanism: The Suburban Centre in Metroland and Letters from London
13. Samantha SKINNER: “This patron of the spurned, this perambulator of margins, this witness”:
Iain Sinclair as Rag-picker
14. Kwadwo OSEI-NYAME, Jnr: Images of London in African Literature: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy and Dambudzo Marechera’s The Black Insider
15. Susan Alice FISCHER: Andrea Levy’s London novels
Notes on contributors
Index