London Eyes

Gail Cunningham is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University. Her recent publications include Houses in Between (CUP, 2004) Anna Lombard (Birmingham University Press, 2002) and He-Notes: Reconstructing Masculinity (Palgrave, 2000).

"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

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGail CunninghamPART I: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON ON THE PAGEIntroductionGail CunninghamChapter 1. London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian FrontierGail CunninghamChapter 2. John Thomson’s London in PhotographsLindsay SmithChapter 3. Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes’s LondonAndrew SmithChapter 4. Aestheticism ‘At Home’ in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic SectAna Parejo VadilloChapter 5. ‘There’s more space within than without’: Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson’s PilgrimageDeborah ParsonsChapter 6. The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret AgentRoger WebsterPART II: THE MODERN AGE: LONDON IN IMAGEIntroductionStephen BarberChapter 7. An Indescribable Blur: Film and LondonStephen BarberChapter 8. Shutting Out the City: Reflections on the Portrayal of London in 1960s Auteur CinemaHugo FreyChapter 9. London circa Sixty-six: The Map of the FilmRoland-François LackChapter 10. Representations of Dystopia and the Film City of LondonSara de FreitasChapter 11. Poodle Queens and the Great Dark Lad: Class, Masculinity and Suburban Trajectories in Gay LondonMartin DinesChapter 12. Coda: What Colour Is Time? Derek Jarman’s SohoJeremy ReedNotes on ContributorsBibliographyFilmographyIndex