The Literary London Society is a scholarly society based in the

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which promotes the study of the

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London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. Its constitution states that "the Society shall foster interdisciplinary and historically wide-ranging research into London literature in its historical, social, and cultural contexts, to include all periods and genres of writing and representations about, set in, inspired by, or alluding to central and suburban London and its environs, from the city’s roots in pre-Roman times to its imagined futures".

Activities

The society publishes an online journal, ''The Literary London Journal'', and organises an annual conference, normally held at the

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of the

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. It also organises reading groups, gives prizes to postgraduate students, and, when possible, offers support to scholars studying London literature.

Society information

An annual Literary London Conference had been running informally since 2002, while ''The Literary London Journal'', edited by Lawrence Phillips, had appeared biannually since 2003. The Literary London Society was founded in July 2011 to formalise the conference and journal, with

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as the first president. The current president of the Literary London Society is Martin Dines from the

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. The current editor of ''The Literary London Journal'' is Nick Bentley from

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References

External links

The Literary London SocietyLiterary London Journal''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Literary London Society Literary societies Regional and local learned societies of the United Kingdom