The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London

London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the peasants’ Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of pepys and the Restoration coffeehouse, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire,of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and post-colonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism.