Imagined Londons / edited by Pamela K. Gilbert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction, Imagining Londons ; Victorian social body and urban cartography / Pamela K. Gilbert -- Other Londoners : race and class in plays of nineteenth-century London life / Heidi J. Holder -- "Men in petticoats" : border crossings in the queer case of Mr. Boulton and Mr. Park / Morris B. Kaplan -- Romancing the city : Arthur Symons and the spatial politics of aesthetics in 1890s London / Michelle Sipe -- Metropole as antipodes : Australian women in London and constructing national identity / Angela Woollacott -- Modernist space and the transformation of underground London / David L. Pike -- London and the tourist imagination / David Gilbert and Fiona Henderson -- Bread and (rock) circuses : sites of sonic conflict in London / Alexei Monroe -- Political construction of diasporic communities in the global city / John Eade, Isabelle Fremeaux, and David Garbin -- Lonely Londoner : V.S. Naipaul and "the god of the city" / Gautam Premnath -- Undoing London or, urban haunts : the fracturing of representation in the 1990s / Julian Wolfreys -- London 2000 : the millennial imagination in a city of monuments / Michael Levenson.

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Annotation 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.

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