Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Problem of London -- Accumulating Impressions -- The City of the World -- Passing the Baton -- Being Realistic -- 1. 'Inclusion and Confusion': Empiricist London -- Fact versus Fiction -- Dealing with Dickens (and Zola) -- 'A restricted number of natural facts': London under the Microscope -- Slumming It -- Telling Tales -- 'O wot' orrid langwidge': Talking to the Cockneys -- The Exact Knowledge of Sherlock Holmes -- Stories without Ends -- 2. Shadows and Fog: Impressionist London -- 'The almost awful clarity of Henry James' -- Paternal Prompting -- Floating like a Butterfly: Whistler -- Impressionist Cityscapes -- Imitating Whistler -- Imitating Monet -- 'Fleeting and transitory things': Speeding London -- Towards the Within -- 3. 'That untravell'd world': Symbolist London -- Doors in the Wall -- Mysteries and Initiations -- Fashioning the Symbol -- Realist Veils -- Phantasmagoria: The Street beyond the Street -- An Immense Darkness -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.