Download or read book Writing London written by J. Wolfreys and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land .