The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

Chronology Introduction Lawrence Manley 1. Images of London in medieval English literature Ralph Hanna 2. London and the early modern stage Jean E. Howard 3. London and the early modern book Adrian Johns 4. 'Sweet Thames! Run softly': London and poetry to 1750 Brean Hammond 5. Upon the town: staging London in the Restoration and eighteenth century Laura J. Rosenthal 6. London and narration in the long eighteenth century Cynthia Wall 7. London and nineteenth-century poetry William Sharpe 8. City walkers: London in the Victorian novel Rosemarie Bodenheimer 9. London in Victorian visual culture Shearer West 10. London in poetry since 1900 Peter Barry 11. London and modern prose, 1900-50 Leo Mellor 12. Immigration and postwar London literature John C. Ball 13. London eyes: writing London in the twenty-first century John McLeod 14. Inner London James Donald Further reading Index.