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Book Synopsis London incessantly generates and incites cultural responses, pre-eminently in the interconnected domains of literature and film. This book demonstrates that those responses have been sustained as vital experiments and engagements in configuring the city and its inhabitants. Including essays by prominent cultural, literary and film historians this volume forms an original and incisive contribution to ongoing debates about the city’s intricate cultural history and its construction through both language and image, as a crucial site of identity, desire, exile and displacement.
Trade Review "London Eyes provides paths through the city, chancing upon those stories that ultimately have the potential to change London, to see it with new eyes, casting new shadows and seeing new stories open up at many turns. This collection has at its heart a joyous fascination with the city and the texts, images and films that have contributed to our ideas about London. It was a wonderful opportunity to stumble upon some new panoramas." · Film Philosophy
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gail Cunningham
PART I: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON ON THE PAGE
Introduction
Gail Cunningham
Chapter 1. London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier
Gail Cunningham
Chapter 2. John Thomson’s London in Photographs
Lindsay Smith
Chapter 3. Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes’s London
Andrew Smith
Chapter 4. Aestheticism ‘At Home’ in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic Sect
Ana Parejo Vadillo
Chapter 5. ‘There’s more space within than without’: Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
Deborah Parsons
Chapter 6. The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
Roger Webster
PART II: THE MODERN AGE: LONDON IN IMAGE
Introduction
Stephen Barber
Chapter 7. An Indescribable Blur: Film and London
Stephen Barber
Chapter 8. Shutting Out the City: Reflections on the Portrayal of London in 1960s Auteur Cinema
Hugo Frey
Chapter 9. London circa Sixty-six: The Map of the Film
Roland-François Lack
Chapter 10. Representations of Dystopia and the Film City of London
Sara de Freitas
Chapter 11. Poodle Queens and the Great Dark Lad: Class, Masculinity and Suburban Trajectories in Gay London
Martin Dines
Chapter 12. Coda: What Colour Is Time? Derek Jarman’s Soho
Jeremy Reed
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
