The Cultural Construction of London’s East End

Paul Newland's illuminating study explores the ways in which London's East End has been constituted in a wide variety of texts films, novels, poetry, television shows, newspapers and journals. Newland argues that an idea or image of the East End, which developed during the late nineteenth century, continues to function in the twenty-first century as an imaginative space in which continuing anxieties continue to be worked through concerning material progress and modernity, rationality and irratio