London Eyes

London incessantly generates and incites cultural responses, pre-eminently in the interconnected domains of literature and film. This book demonstrates that those responses have been sustained as vital experiments and engagements in configuring the city and its inhabitants. Including essays by prominent cultural, literary and film historians this volume forms an original and incisive contribution to ongoing debates about the city's intricate cultural history and its construction through both language and image, as a crucial site of identity, desire, exile and displacement. Gail Cunninghamis 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). Stephen Barberis a Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University. His most recent publications include The Vanishing Map(Berg, 2006), Hijikata(Creation, 2006) and The Art of Destruction(Creation 2004). He has been awarded international prizes and awards for his work by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Getty Program, the Ford Foundation, the DAAD Berlin Artists and Writers Programme, the Annenberg Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, the British Academy, the Daiwa Foundation, the Saison Foundation, and the London Arts Board.

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).

Stephen Barber is a Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University. His most recent publications include The Vanishing Map (Berg, 2006), Hijikata (Creation, 2006) and The Art of Destruction (Creation 2004). He has been awarded international prizes and awards for his work by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Getty Program, the Ford Foundation, the DAAD Berlin Artists and Writers Programme, the Annenberg Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, the British Academy, the Daiwa Foundation, the Saison Foundation, and the London Arts Board.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Victorian and Edwardian London on the Page
Introduction	p. 3
London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier	p. 7
John Thomson's London in Photographs	p. 27
Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmes's London	p. 47
Aestheticism 'At Home' in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic Sect	p. 59
'There's more space within than without': Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage	p. 79
The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent	p. 91
The Modern Age: London in Image
Introduction	p. 119
An Indescribable Blur: Film and London	p. 123
Shutting Out the City: Reflections on the Portrayal of London in 1960s Auteur Cinema	p. 135
London circa Sixty-six: The Map of the Film	p. 149
Representations of Dystopia and the Film City of London	p. 177
Poodle Queens and the Great Dark Lad: Class, Masculinity and Suburban Trajectories in Gay London	p. 189
Coda: What Colour Is Time? Derek Jarman's Soho	p. 203
Notes on Contributors	p. 207
Bibliography	p. 209
Filmography	p. 215
Index	p. 219
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