Title: Writing the urban jungle : reading empire in London from Doyle to Eliot /
Authors: McLaughlin, Joseph, 1964-
Publisher: University Press of Virginia,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Political and social views.; Booth, William,; Eliot, T. S.; London, Jack,; English literature England London History and criticism; American literature England London History and criticism.; Literature and society England London History.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character); City and town life in literature; Imperialism in literature.; London (England) In literature.
Contents: An irritation to metaphor: late-Victorian London as urban jungle -- Holmes and the range: frontiers old and new in A study in scarlet -- The romance of invasion: cocaine and cannibals in The sign of four -- Colonizing the urban jungle: General Booth's In darkest England and the way out -- Writing London: east end ethnography in Jack London's The people of the abyss -- Where does the east end?: with Conrad in darkest Soho -- "What are the roots that clutch?": money, migration, and The waste land.