The Swarming Streets

Download or read book The Swarming Streets written by Lawrence Phillips and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Introduction: The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London /Lawrence Phillips --A Risky Business: Going Out in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson /Nadine Attewell --"A Filmless London": Flânerie and Urban Culture in Dorothy Richardson's Articles for Close Up --Virgina Woolf's London and the Archaeology of Character /Vicki Tromanhauser --Treasure Seekers in the City: London in the Novels of E. Nesbit /Jenny Bavidge --"Thou art full of Stirs, a Tumultuous City": Storm Jameson and London in the 1920s /Chiara Briganti --"A Network of Inscrutable Canyons": Wartime London's Sensory Landscapes /Sara Wasson --Tales from the Crypt: Wartime London in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock /Ingrid Gunby --My Doingthings: London According to B. S. Johnson /Philip Tew --Cheerleading and Charting the Cosmopolis: London as Linear Narrative and Contested Space /Rob Burton --Shades of the Eighties: The Colour of Memory /Joe Brooker --Julian Barnes and the Marginalisation of Metropolitanism: The Suburban Centre in Metroland and Letters from London /Keith Wilson --"This Patron of the Spurned, this Perambulator of Margins, this Witness": Iain Sinclair as Rag-picker /Samantha Skinner --Images of London in African Literature: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and Dambudzo Marechera's The Black Insider /Kwadwo Jnr Osei-Nyame --Andrea Levy's London Novels /Susan Alice Fischer --Notes on Contributors /Lawrence Phillips --Index /Lawrence Phillips.