WRITING LONDON

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This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities concluding with an extended reading ofAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: of invention and the singularities of the city of London The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle London and the Anxieties of Late Imperial England The tortuous geography of the night world: the productive disorder of the Noctuary Text Between Seeing and Knowing: Amy Levy Arnold Bennett and Urban CounterRomance All the living and the dead: Urban Anamnesis in John Berger and Iain Sinclair Concatenated words from which the sense seemed gone: The Waste Land Afterword WJulian Wolfreys series of Writing London books goes from strength to strength. This volume contains admirable readings of the way a series of writers invent London by way of telling stories about particular locations within it including wonderful chapters on London at night on Richard Marshs The Beetle on Amy Levy and Arnold Bennett (he revived an interest in Bennett for me!) on John Berger and Iain Sinclair and last on Eliots The Waste Land . The Eliot chapter is by far the best essay on The Waste Land I have ever read. It is a genuine tour de force as is the whole book. Professor J. Hillis Miller Distinguished Professor University of California IrvinJulian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th and 20thcentury British literary and cultural studies literary theory the poetics and politics of identity and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students notably The English Litera

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