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Overview
Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day. BACKCOVER: 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.Author Biography: Pamela K. Gilbert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is the author of Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels and the coeditor (with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie) of Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, also published by SUNY Press.
Synopsis
Gilbert (English, U. of Florida) introduces a dozen contributed chapters viewing London from multiple perspectives: e.g. that of urban developers, cultural studies looking to geography to re- contextualize place and identity (e.g. of diaspora communities), historians, and literary scholars. Includes illustrations of the London underground and other cityscapes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR