Cultures of London

Charlotte Grant is Senior Lecturer in English at NCH London, UK. She has a background in literature and visual culture, having taught previously at QMUL, King’s London, and Cambridge, where she held a lectureship in literature and visual culture. She has published on Eighteenth-Century literature and culture, edited a collection of botanical writing and co-edited Imagined Interiors and Women, Writing and the Public Sphere.Alistair Robinson completed his PhD at UCL in 2018 and became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, before joining NCH London in the summer of 2019, where he is now Lecturer in English. He has published on nineteenth-century literature and culture in the Journal of Victorian Culture and the Review of English Studies, and is currently preparing his first monograph for publication.

• FrontmatterAuthor BiographiesIntroduction, Charlotte Grant and Alistair RobinsonCENTRAL1. St. Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul’s Cathedral, Alastair Bennett2. Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer, Markman Ellis3. The ‘Black-birds’ of St. Giles: Community and Place in Eighteenth-century London, Nicole N. Aljoe and Savita Maharaj4. Styling the Other: Hazlitt’s ‘The Indian Jugglers’, Uttara Natarajan5. Begging Places: Poverty, Race, and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815, David Hitchcock6. 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818–76, Oskar Cox Jensen7. The Chinese Aesthetics of the Admonitions Scroll at the British Museum, Kent Su8. ‘A terrain on its own’: Elizabeth Bowen and Regent’s Park, Heather IngmanINFRASTRUCTURE: WATER9. London’s Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons, Susan J. WisemanEAST10. Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Daniel Swift11. Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell, Eliza Cubitt12. 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity, Dan Cruikshank13. The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde, Alex GrafenINFRASTRUCTURE: WASTE14. Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor, Naomi HindsSOUTH15. Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from ‘Tradescant’s Ark’ to Vauxhall Gardens, Charlotte Grant16. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg, Catherine Brown17. 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent Van Gogh, Livia Wang18. Writing London: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Ruvani RanasinhaINFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT I19. Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s–70s, Rob WatersWEST20. Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in 1700, Alistair Robinson21. Feathered People in Enlightenment London: Queen of the Bluestockings meets Cherokee King, Elizabeth Eger22. Prince Eugen in Kensington: Anglo-Scandinavian Artistic, Networks and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Eva-Charlotta Mebius23. ‘What a relief to be back in London’: The Silences of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Edmund de Waal24. Tricksters of the Water: Sam Selvon's West London and the Migrant Experience, Peter Maber and Karishma Patel25. Arabian Nights on the Edgware Road: Hanan al-Shaykh’s Only in London, Susie Thomas26. The Grand Prince of Kyiv in Holland Park: The Statue of Saint Volodymyr, Sasha Dovzhyk27. ‘Is real mas outside’: Community, Resistance and Notting Hill Carnival, Leighan Renaud28. ‘Where the City Dissolves’: Suburban Diasporas, Psychosis and Reparative Writing, Martin DinesINFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT II29. A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe KerrNORTH30. John Keats and London: Nature, the City and the Suburbs, Flora Lisica31. The Battle for an African Space in London: WASU Hostel and Aggrey House, William Whitworth32. Northview: A Snapshot of Multiracial London during the Second World War, Oliver Ayers33. Exiles of NW3: The ‘Free German League of Culture’ in Upper Park Road, David AndersonSelect BibliographyIndex

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