Imagined Londons

by Gilbert, Pamela K.

• ISBN13: 9780791455029
• ISBN10: 0791455025
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Imagining Londons	1	(10)
Pamela K. Gilbert
The Victorian Social Body and Urban Cartography	11	(20)
Pamela K. Gilbert
Other Londoners: Race and Class in Plays of Nineteenth-Century London Life	31	(14)
Heidi J. Holder
``Men in Petticoats'': Border Crossings in the Queer Case of Mr. Boulton and Mr. Park	45	(24)
Morris B. Kaplan
Romancing the City: Arthur Symons and the Spatial Politics of Aesthetics in 1890s London	69	(16)
Michelle Sipe
The Metropole as Antipodes: Australian Women in London and Constructing National Identity	85	(16)
Angela Woollacott
Modernist Space and the Transformation of Underground London	101	(20)
David L. Pike
London and the Tourist Imagination	121	(16)
David Gilbert
Fiona Henderson
Bread and (Rock) Circuses: Sites of Sonic Conflict in London	137	(22)
Alexei Monroe
The Political Construction of Diasporic Communities in the Global City	159	(18)
John Eade
Isabelle Fremeaux
David Garbin
Lonely Londoner: V. S. Naipaul and ``The God of the City''	177	(16)
Gautam Premnath
Undoing London or, Urban Haunts: The Fracturing of Representation in the 1990s	193	(26)
Julian Wolfreys
London 2000: The Millennial Imagination in a City of Monuments	219	(22)
Michael Levenson
List of Contributors	241	(4)
Index	245