Writing London Julian Wolfreys ; Vol. 3: Inventions of the city Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: of invention and the singularities of the city of London The Hieroglyphic Other: The Beetle London and the Anxieties of Late Imperial England The tortuous geography of the night world: the productive disorder of the Noctuary Text Between Seeing and Knowing: Amy Levy Arnold Bennett and Urban Counter Romance All the living and the dead: Urban Anamnesis in John Berger and Iain Sinclair Concatenated words from which the sense seemed gone: The Waste Land Afterword Works Cited Index Presents a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between the years 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. This volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities and re evaluates motifs of the nocturnal and the suburban in the literary imagination of London. Writing London: Inventions of the City stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between the years 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 whilst also offering a cogent re evaluation of motifs of the nocturnal and the suburban in the literary imagination of London concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land and its manuscript drafts.