Preliminary Material --Introduction: The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London /Lawrence Phillips --A Risky Business: Going Out in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson /Nadine Attewell --"A Filmless London": Flânerie and Urban Culture in Dorothy Richardson's Articles for Close Up --Virgina Woolf's London and the Archaeology of Character /Vicki Tromanhauser --Treasure Seekers in the City: London in the Novels of E. Nesbit /Jenny Bavidge --"Thou art full of Stirs, a Tumultuous City": Storm Jameson and London in the 1920s /Chiara Briganti --"A Network of Inscrutable Canyons": Wartime London's Sensory Landscapes /Sara Wasson --Tales from the Crypt: Wartime London in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock /Ingrid Gunby --My Doingthings: London According to B. S. Johnson /Philip Tew --Cheerleading and Charting the Cosmopolis: London as Linear Narrative and Contested Space /Rob Burton --Shades of the Eighties: The Colour of Memory /Joe Brooker --Julian Barnes and the Marginalisation of Metropolitanism: The Suburban Centre in Metroland and Letters from London /Keith Wilson --"This Patron of the Spurned, this Perambulator of Margins, this Witness": Iain Sinclair as Rag-picker /Samantha Skinner --Images of London in African Literature: Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and Dambudzo Marechera's The Black Insider /Kwadwo Jnr Osei-Nyame --Andrea Levy's London Novels /Susan Alice Fischer --Notes on Contributors /Lawrence Phillips --Index /Lawrence Phillips.

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