The swarming streets : : twentieth-century literary representations of London / / edited by Lawrence Phillips.

• Superior document: Costerus ; new. ser., 154
• TeilnehmendeR: Phillips, Lawrence 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus ; new. ser., v. 154.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London / Lawrence Phillips -- A Risky Business: Going Out in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson / Nadine Attewell -- "A Filmless London": Flânerie and Urban Culture in Dorothy Richardson's Articles for Close Up -- Virginia Woolf's London and the Archaeology of Character / Vicki Tromanhauser -- Treasure Seekers in the City: London in the Novels of E. Nesbit / Jenny Bavidge -- "Thou art full of Stirs, a Tumultuous City": Storm Jameson and London in the 1920s / Chiara Briganti -- "A Network of Inscrutable Canyons": Wartime London's Sensory Landscapes / Sara Wasson -- Tales from the Crypt: Wartime London in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock / Ingrid Gunby -- My Doingthings: London According to B. S. Johnson / Philip Tew -- Cheerleading and Charting the Cosmopolis: London as Linear Narrative and Contested Space / Rob Burton -- Shades of the Eighties: The Colour of Memory / Joe Brooker -- Julian Barnes and the Marginalisation of Metropolitanism: The Suburban Centre in Metroland and Letters from London / Keith Wilson -- "This Patron of the Spurned, this Perambulator of Margins, this Witness": Iain Sinclair as Rag-picker / Samantha Skinner -- Images of London in African Literature: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and Dambudzo Marechera's The Black Insider / Kwadwo Jnr Osei-Nyame -- Andrea Levy's London Novels / Susan Alice Fischer -- Notes on Contributors / Lawrence Phillips -- Index / Lawrence Phillips.