This course will survey fictional representations of the metropolis, exploring the birth of modern policing; dystopian visions of impending disaster; and London as a site of mass migration across two centuries. Teaching will be by lecture and seminar/group discussion.
Meet the Tutor
Sarah Wise
Sarah is an award-winning writer and historian. She teaches 19thcentury social history and literature at the University of California’s London Outreach Center.
Her TV work includes BBC1’s Secret History of Our Streets, BBC2’s The Victorian Slum and has twice been the history expert for ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Her books include Inconvenient People, shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize; The Italian Boy, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger; and The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum, shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize.
