Sebastian Groes, The Making of London. London in Contemporary Literature
From its very title, Sebastian Groes’s study of London in contemporary literature points to the notion of ‘making’, i.e. ‘the constructed and artificial nature of the city’ (2), and comes to the conclusion that ‘the making of London is also its unmaking’ (3). Instead of reducing London (that T. S. ...
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