Imagined Londons / edited by Pamela K. Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilbert, Pamela K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--History.

London (England).

London (England)--Social life and customs.

London (England)--Historical geography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Imagining Londons

The Victorian Social Body and Urban Cartography

Other Londoners: Race and Class in Plays of Nineteenth-Century London Life

“Men in Petticoats”: Border Crossings in the Queer Case of Mr. Boulton and Mr. Park

Romancing the City: Arthur Symons and the Spatial Politics of Aesthetics in 1890s London

The Metropole as Antipodes: Australian Women in London and Constructing National Identity

Modernist Space and the Transformation of Underground London

London and the Tourist Imagination

Bread and (Rock) Circuses: Sites of Sonic Conflict in London

The Political Construction of Diasporic Communities in the Global City

Lonely Londoner: V. S. Naipaul and “The God of the City”

Undoing London or, Urban Haunts: The Fracturing of Representation in the 1990s

London 2000: The Millennial Imagination in a City of Monuments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791487976

0791487970

9780585490748

0585490740

OCLC:

61367620