Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz and Ralf Schneider -- No ‘Insoreckshan’ in the Global City? Representations of London Rioting, 1981 and 2011 / Nicole Falkenhayner -- Capital/Rebel City: London 2012 and the Struggle for Hegemony – Reflections on the Spatiality of Power / Florian Cord -- Shakespeare 2012 – Staging a Cosmopolitan Capital / Stefanie Brenzel -- New Royal London: Re-branding London, Re-staging Monarchy1 / Jürgen Ronthaler -- The Mobile Olympic City: London, City Branding, and the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony / Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz -- A Tale of Many Londons: Media Representations of the Rhizomatic Metropolis in the Aftermath of Woolwich / Julia Arifeen -- London Remembers: The Bomber Command Memorial and Recent Memories of War in the British Capital / Christoph Ehland -- Fighting on the Home Front: Skyfall (2012) and James Bond’s London / Wieland Schwanebeck -- Experiencing Global Wealth in London: Authentic Voice in Attack the Block and The Secret Service: Kingsman / Jonatan Jalle Steller -- Lines of Disconnection: The Penguin London Tube Anniversary Series (2013) / Barbara Korte and Georg Zipp -- ‘Clearly Money Has Something to Do with Life’1 – But What Exactly? Reflections on Recent Credit Crunch Fiction(s) / Jürgen Kramer -- The Wisdom of the Folly: Co-operative Diversity in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London Series / Stefanie Lethbridge -- ‘London’s destructions, dreamed-up and real’:1 The Apocalyptic City of China Miéville / Christian W. Schneider.

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London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture explores cultural and literary representations of London since around 2010 and focuses on a period in which a string of celebratory national and global media events, but also riots and anti-capitalist protests have cemented London’s status as a paradigmatic world city. This collection of articles brings together a wide variety of topics, such as the 2011 London riots, the London Olympics of 2012, royal festivities, the Tube anniversary, memorials, and London in recent novels and blockbuster films. The contributions look at the way in which cultural and literary texts articulate competing versions of the contemporary city, oscillating between either supporting or subverting the hegemonic narrative of London as a place of cosmopolitan harmony and inclusion.

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