Writing London

This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .

Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: of invention and the singularities of the city of London The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle , London, a ...