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Issue 9.2

Literary London: Interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London

Volume 9 Number 2 (September 2011)

Edited by Brycchan Carey

ISSN: 1744-0807

Essays

David Charnick

The Trope of the Tramp: Peter Ackroyd’s Vagrants at the Heart of the City

Phil Robinson

Trading Places: Middleton’s Mayor and Middleton’s Moor

Henriette Steiner

“The more I see of the world…”: London as Metropolitan Paradigm in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796)

Susie Thomas

Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife (1963): Remembering the Holocaust in Hackney

Andelys Wood

The Stones of London: Public Art in Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart Trilogy

Reviews

Simon Goulding

Sara Wasson, Urban Gothic of the Second World War: Dark London

Tzu Yu Allison Lin

Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London

Susie Thomas

Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English

Contributors

Notes on Contributors

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

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

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

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'