London in Literature

Visionary Mappings of the Metropolis. Edited by Susana Onega and John A. Stotesbury.

11 essays focus "Visionary London" in the works of a wide range of authors, from Spenser, De Quincey and Wordsworth to Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and Peter Ackroyd. - Contents: 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. Wordsworth's 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 Woolf. - John A Stotesbury: A Postcolonial Reading of Metropolitan Space in Graham Greene's "The End of the Affair". - Silvia Mergenthal: "Whose City?" 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 Ackroyd's "Contrary" to Blake's 'Jerusalem'. - Jean-Michel Ganteau: "London: The Biography", or, Peter Ackroyd's Sublime Geographies. - Mark Rowlinson: Physical Graffiti. The Making of the Represenation of Zone One and Two. 257 Seiten, broschiert (Anglistische Forschungen; Vol. 309/Universitätsverlag Winter 2002)