G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK. His previous books include The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue. Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

• Acknowledgements List of ContributorsIntroduction Matthew Ingleby1 Why Chesterton Loved London Michael D. Hurley2 The Chestertonian City: A Singularly Plural ApproachLynne Hapgood3 Signs Taken for Wonders: Adverts and Sacraments in Chesterton’s London Mark Knight4 Chesterton, Machen and the Invisible City Nick Freeman5 The Knight Errant in the Street: Chesterton, Childe Roland and the City Matthew Beaumont6 Queer Clubs and Queer Trades: G. K. Chesterton, Homosociality and the City Merrick Burrow7 Chesterton and the Romance of Burglary Matthew Ingleby8 A Playground for Adults: Urban Recreation in Chesterton’s Detective Fiction Michael Shallcross9 Estranging the Everyday: G. K. Chesterton’s Urban ModernismColin Cavendish-Jones10 Distributism and the City Matthew TauntonAfterword: The Unremarkable Chesterton Julian WolfreysIndex

This is an important and wide-ranging collection of essays that no Chestertonian can afford to miss, particularly given that Chesterton studies, on an upswing though they may be of late, still constitute a far from oversubscribed area for scholarly attention.