London in Literature

Table of Contents: 1. Approaching Visionary London: - Patrick Parrinder: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins": Visions of Ruined London from Edmund Spenser to J. G. Ballard - Francesca Cuojati: De Quincey's Opiate London: From Labyrinth to Palimpsest - Timothy Webb: Dangerous Plurals: William Wordsworth, Bartholomew Fair, and the Challenges of an Urban Poetics - John Mepham: London as Auditorium: Public Spaces and Disconnected Talk in Works by Ford Madox Ford, Patrick Hamilton and Virginia Woolfs - John A Stotesbury: A Postcolonial Reading of Metropolitan Space in Graham Green's The End of the Affair 2. Visionary London: - Silvia Mergenthal: Whose Cityi Contested Spaces and Contesting Spatialities in Contemporary London Fiction - Heike Hartung: Walking and Writing the City: Visions of London in the Works of Peter Ackroyd and Ian Sinclair - Doris Teske: Jim Crace's Arcadia: Public Culture in the Postmodern City - Susana Onega: The Plato Papers: Peter Ackrody's "Contrary" to Blake's Jerusalem - Jean-Michel Ganteau: London: The Biography, or, Peter Ackrody's Sublime Geographies - Mark Rowlinson: Physical Graffiti: The Making of the Represenation of Zone One and Two