London Eyes Reflections in Text and Image [Hardcover]

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 citys intricate cultural history and its construction through both language and image, as a crucial site of identity, desire, exile and displacement.

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

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Acknowledgements

Introduction
Gail Cunningham

PART I: VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON ON THE PAGE

Introduction
Gail Cunningham

Chapter 1.London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier
Gail Cunningham

Chapter 2.John Thomsons London in Photographs
Lindsay Smith

Chapter 3.Displacing Urban Man: Sherlock Holmess London
Andrew Smith

Chapter 4.Aestheticism At Home in London: A. Mary F. Robinson and the Aesthetic Sect
Ana Parejo Vadillo

Chapter 5.Theres more space within than without: Agoraphobia and the Bildungsroman in Dorothy Richardsons Pilgrimage
Deborah Parsons

Chapter 6.The Aesthetics of Walking: Literary and Filmic Representations of London in Joseph Conrads The lÃ#