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    London Fictions

    By Andrew Whitehead

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    London Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. Two dozen contemporary writers, from Cathi Unsworth to Courttia Newland, reflect on some of the novelists and the novels that have helped define the modern city, from George Gissing to Zadie Smith, Hangover Square to Brick Lane. It is a book about East End boys and West End girls, bedsit land and dockland, the homeless and the homesick, immigrants and emigrants. All human life is here – highminded Hampstead and boozy Fitzrovia, the Jewish East End, intellectual Bloomsbury and Chinese Limehouse, Black London, Asian London, Irish London, Gay London...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Leaves Publications
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781907869860
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      London Fictions examines the role of London, in most cases particular neighborhoods and locations, in a series of novels published in the post-Dickens era, starting with George Gissings’ The Nether World (taking place in Clerkenwell) published in 1889 and ending with Zadie Smith’s NW published in 2012. Each chapter is written by a contemporary “Londonist” who picks a novel the contributor likes (or dislikes) but that has a special connection to London. Each chapter introduces plot and character, what makes the novel part of the London “canon,” and ends with a brief description of how the city in the novel differs from the London of 2013. This is a delightful book for learning about London’s various neighborhoods as well as getting an introduction to important modern English novelists (and the Londonist contributors) and exploring changes in London social life over the period covered. When travel to London is constrained by pandemics or other causes, it is a good way to feed one’s appetite for things London.I particularly liked the chapters on the aforementioned Nether World (Clerkenwell), Israel Zangwill’s Children of the Ghetto (1892) (Whitechapel), Henry Nevinson’s Neighbours of Ours (1895) (Whitechapel, Wapping, Shadwell), Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago (1896) (the “old Nichol” slum next to Shoreditch) and Thomas Burke’s Limehouse Nights (1916) (Chinatown in Limehouse).