- Literary London Society

~~Saturday 7th September 2024~~

Due to unforeseen organisational challenges, the ‘London as Literary Babel’ online symposium has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in the future if possible.

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2021 'Lost Voices' Annual Lecture Video Stream Now Available

The 2021 Annual Lecture by Adeola Solanke (Greenwich), ‘Portrait of the artist as an enslaved woman: Phillis in London,’ is now available to stream online here.

Literary London Reading Group - Call for Volunteers

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Call for Papers: Discovery: 42nd Annual Virtual Conference, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (March 11-13, 2021)

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Publication Announcement: Fairy Tales of London: British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present – Hadas Elber-Aviram (February 2021)

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David Anderson, 'Speculative Topography: The Fantastical Overdetermination of Space in Iain Sinclair's Early Writing'
Rebecca D'Arcy, 'Negotiating John Healy's The Grass Arena: Poverty, Inequality and Violence in the Immigrant Experience of the Irish in Britain'
Anthony Paraskeva, 'Non-Linear Cinema and the Editing of Urban Space in the Fiction of Iain Sinclair'
Rebekka Rohleder, 'Displacing Conflict: Work, the Self and the City in Monica Ali's In the Kitchen'