This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport. It also radically re-addresses the questions of epistemology and gender in the Victorian metropolis by mapping the epistemology of the passenger. Vadillo focuses on the lyric urban writings of Amy Levy, Alice Meynell, 'Graham R. Tomson' (Rosamund Marriott Watson) and 'Michael Field' (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper). Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Prize

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ANA PAREJO VADILLO is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the School of English, University of Exeter, UK.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: PASSENGERS OF MODERNITY Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism Women and Modernity in Late-Victorian London Becoming Passengers Mapping Passengers of Modernity PART 1: AMY LEVY IN BLOOMSBURY: THE POET AS PASSENGER Amy Levy at Endsleigh Gardens The Poet as Passenger Aesthetics of an Omnibus PART 2: ALICE MEYNELL: AN IMPRESSIONIST IN KENSINGTON Consumer Culture and Femininity in the Royal Borough of Kensington Alice Meynell in Kensington A London Impressionist PART 3: THE FASTEST NEIGHBOURHOOD IN TOWN: GRAHAM R. TOMSON IN ST JOHN'S WOOD Bohemia in St John's Wood The Fatsest Neighbourhood in Town Modelling the Ephemeral Phenomena in Flux: Speed and Annihilation of Frontiers PART 4: MODERNITY IN SUBURBIA: MICHAEL FIELD'S EXPERIMENTAL POETICS Spatial History Modernity and Suburbia Experimental Poetics: Sight and Song (1982) POSTSCRIPT: THE END OF THE LINE? Notes Bibliography Index