This volume is the product of the Fifth Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, held in Helsinki in August 2000, from whence many of the collected papers derive. The book is divided into two sections, "Approaching Visionary London", where Patrick Parrinder, Francesca Cuojati, Timothy Webb, John Mepham and John Stotesbury deal with a combination of pre-twentieth-century and classic Modernist texts, from Wordsworth and de Quincey to Graham Greene; and "Visionary London", where Silvia Mergenthal, Heike Hartung, Doris Teske, Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau and Mark Rawlinson are concerned with the work of contemporary writers like Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, Geoff Nicholson or Jim Crace.