The Swarming Streets
Subtitle: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London (Costerus NS 154)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789042016637
First sentence: Late in Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), Terence Hewet outlines a plan of "walking down Kingsway" and along the Strand.
Description: "Ranging from the turn of the nineteenth century to the last few years of the twentieth century, The Swarming Streets explores the representation of London in the last century through some of the major writers who have made it the foundation of their work. The natural companion to recent major histories and biographies of the metropolis, students and researchers alike will find major new essays on Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Storm Jameson, E. Nesbit, Julian Barnes, Iain Sinclair, Graham Swift, B. S. Johnson, and Andrea Levy and others. Drawing on a rich variety of critical approaches, each essay is distinct as well as contributing to an overall analysis of literary representations of twentieth-century London."--BOOK JACKET.