Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and has written many course texts for Literature students, notably The English Literature Companion .

• Acknowledgements Introduction Blake's London; London's Blake 'Half Lost in Night': Envisioning London or, Romantic Poetry's Capital Snapshots Citephobia: The Anxiety of Representation or, Fear and Loathing in London Dickensian Architextures of, the City and the Ineffable Fragments, Supplements, Palimpsests: a Photo-Essay Afterword: 'the Only Game in Town' or, London to Come Bibliography Index

'Writing London makes a vital contribution to a growing field of interest in urban literature.' - Jennifer Davis Michael, The Wadsworth Circle 'Writing London is a brilliant book...Writing London conveys an excitement endowed by passion and intellectual risk, and more such studies of the nineteenth century would be welcome.' - Isobel Armstrong, Times Literary Supplement 'Writing London is an absorbing and lively study, which can usefully be added to the great flood of literature concerning the city.' - Peter Ackroyd, Times