Imagined Londons

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.

"…lively, readable, and eclectic." — Albion"Imagined Londons affords a vivid exploration of the city's numerous geographical, textual, cultural, and artistic landscapes. Unlike much contemporary criticism—cultural, literary, or otherwise—this is a genuinely absorbing read, a page-turner, if you will. It has provided me with new accents and perspectives on a city that I visit often and that I have come to adore." — Kenneth Womack, coeditor of Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory"The authors draw on literary, visual, and archival evidence, and make analytical arguments as well as descriptive cases for the complexity of the urban landscape. This is serious scholarship, but it's also clearly written and would serve a variety of audiences well, including general readers with an interest in London." — Antoinette Burton, editor of Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader"As a Victorianist, I would have thought I'd only have wanted to read the first few essays, but the later pieces were so compelling that I was eager to keep turning the pages. I imagine this book would cross over to an educated popular readership. It's a text that current London residents or ex-Londoners would particularly enjoy." — Talia Schaffer, author of The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. IMAGINING LONDONSPamela K. Gilbert 1. THE VICTORIAN SOCIAL BODY AND URBAN CARTOGRAPHYPamela K. Gilbert 2. OTHER LONDONERS: RACE AND CLASS IN PLAYS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LONDON LIFEHeidi J. Holder 3. "MEN IN PETTICOATS": BORDER CROSSINGS IN THE QUEER CASE OF MR. BOULTON AND MR. PARKMorris B. Kaplan 4. ROMANCING THE CITY: ARTHUR SYMONS AND THE SPATIAL POLITICS OF AESTHETICS IN 1890s LONDONMichelle Sipe 5. THE METROPOLE AS ANTIPODES: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN LONDON AND CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL IDENTITYAngela Woollacott 6. MODERNIST SPACE AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF UNDERGROUND LONDON David L. Pike 7. LONDON AND THE TOURIST IMAGINATIONDavid Gilbert and Fiona Henderson 8. BREAD AND (ROCK) CIRCUSES: SITES OF SONIC CONFLICT IN LONDONAlexei Monroe 9. THE POLITICAL CONSTRUCTION OF DIASPORIC COMMUNITIES IN THE GLOBAL CITYJohn Eade, Isabelle Fremeaux, and David Garbin 10. LONELY LONDONER: V. S. NAIPAUL AND "THE GOD OF THE CITY"Gautam Premnath 11. UNDOING LONDON OR, URBAN HAUNTS: THE FRACTURING OF REPRESENTATION IN THE 1990sJulian Wolfreys 12. LONDON 2000: THE MILLENNIAL IMAGINATION IN A CITY OF MONUMENTSMichael Levenson List of Contributors Index