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...Melissa Dinsman Abstract Over the span of almost fifty years the British author Mollie Panter-Downes contributed 852 pieces to the New Yorker ; this included 153 London Letters during World War II alone. In these Panter-Downes reported on the “everyday” aspects of the British home front experience...

...Eileen Barrett W hose Q ueer Lo n d o n ? E ileen B a r r e tt IIn Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 19T8-W57, Matt Houlbrook combs the archives o f the Public Record Office, the Central Criminal Court, the M etropolitan Police, and the Public M orality Council, among...

...Marc Stein QUEER LONDON, M ET H O D ACTING, a n d Time T r a v e l Marc S tein Matt Houlbrook begins his wonderful new book by reporting that a friend recently told him that he practices "the historian's equivalent o f method acting." Returning to the joke, he concludes his acknowledgments...

... Act o f 1967. It is an appropriate anniversary m om ent, then, to be reflecting on the history of queer life in London, and M att Houlbrook's excellent and richly generative study provides a welcom e opportunity to do so. As it happens, the history o f queer London has tended to be told m ostly...

...Marsha Keith Schuchard Abstract When Jonathan Swift anonymously published A Letter from the Grand Mistress of the Female Freemasons (Dublin, 1724), he entered a political minefield, for it was a mocking response to James Anderson’s Constitutions of the Freemasons (London, 1723). Swift countered...

...Rodrigo Lazo Abstract The article suggests that the fashionable use of the term Latinx overlooks the historical context of Spanish-language publications in which the gender distinction Latina/o is important. Focusing on the anonymously published Cartas de un Americano (London, 1826), a collection...

.... (London: H arper Collins, 2003) 271. 3Jo h n Carroll, Appreciation: Patrick O Brian An Austen o f the D eep. The San Francisco Chronicle. January 10, 2000. E-2. 4 Starling Lawrence, Re: The A ncient Mariner. E-Mail to Jam es R. Simmons, Jr. May 21, 2004. 5 Dean King, Patrick O Brian: A Life. New...

... and distinctions of the Edwardian world. University of London W. A. D avenport NOTES 1Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, Vol.II, (Oxford: O xford UP, 1996) 273. 2In the poem F ord has his chorus o f m en cry to each other: T he Gods to each ascribe a differing lo t!/ Some rest on snowy bosoms! Some do...

... as from his association with figures from folklore o r legend, or from the various allegorical significances that have been attrib­ uted to him. RoyJ. Pearcy University College, London NOTES 1T hom as A quinas, De fallaciis ad quosdam nobiles artistas, in Opuscula Om­ nia, ed. Pierre M andonnet (Paris...

..., but out into the w o rld in w hich th a t cinem a is produced. Michael Sayeau U niversity College London NOTES 1 Nina Power, "The Girlfriend Experience Infinite Thought Blog, www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/ 2009/06/girlfriend-experience.asp. 2 Maurizio Lazzarato, "Immaterial Labour," in Radical...

... AnnaToropova U niversity College London NOTES 1Anatolii Lunacharskii, "Kakaia nam nuzhna melodrama?" in A. V. Lunacharskii: Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 2 (Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1964), 214. On the serviceability of melodrama for propagan­ da see Julie A. Cassiday, The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet...

... (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998). 53 Thom pson V.105. 54 T hom pson V.105-6. 55 Indeed, this lesson had real m erit in this period; while Steve Rappaport reports that nearly half of all apprentices in London simply abandoned dieir training before the end of their terms (314), he also observes that for a man...

... self another emblematic w rite r of Pop, quoting liberally from 1960s popu­ lar music "m odernists" PeteTownshend and The W ho,10 has noted: "the simple things you see are all complicated W ith the onset o f the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks on NewYork, Washington, D.C., and London, Kureishi's w riting...

... time that Taiwan had occupied the minds of Britons since an infamous event over a century earlier. This, Pickering wrote, was when London had been visited by “an impostor named George Psalmanazar, who professed to be a Japanese convert from the island [of Taiwan], and who published in Latin a wonderful...

... of the play which read salt-waterfish," revised Farm er s pickled pike in favor of the sea­ water luce. He pointed out that Jo h n Stow s Survay of London (1598) contains a reference to luces of the sea. Nevertheless, his explanation assumes the same shape as Farm er s, though Halliwell-Phillipps placed...

... and turn of Clarissa, PeterWalsh, Richard Dalloway, Septim us Sm ith, and Elizabeth Dal­ loway easier than ever.Their itineraries are com m only represented as colorful dotted lines that spread out in different directions across London and generate shapes that are supposed to reveal som ething m eaningful...

...Leila J. Rupp M a k in g S pace f o r O u r C u lt L e ila J. R u p p Ihave to adm it to a mom ent of disappointment when I began reading Queer London. Because I am w orking on a synthetic global history of love between wom en, I hoped to glean new inform ation about the lives o f wom en w ho...

...Nan Alamilla Boyd G e n d e r s L ike T h at N an A la m illa B oyd Matt Houlbrook's tour de force, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 19 8- 57, builds a satisfying narrative around the social w o rld queer men traversed through London's interw ar period. His prim ary...

.... W hittington s tale also participates in the larger project of establishing idealized models of social mobility in early m odern London. As a result, Whittington and his cat provide a useful window into the changing milieu of the London gilds at the turn of the seventeenth century. W hittington s...