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Introduction 1. See Chris Waters, “Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud and the State: Discourses of Homosexual Identity in Interwar Britain,” in Lucy Bland and Laura Doan, eds., Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires (London: Polity Press, 1998), 165-79. 2. Peter Wildeblood, Memorandum to the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (1954) (The National Archives [TNA]: Public Records Office [PRO] /HO/345/8/CHP/51), 8. 3. Chris Waters, “Disorders of the Mind, Disorders of the Body Social: Peter Wildeblood and the Making of the Modern Homosexual,” in Becky Conekin, Frank Mort, and Chris Waters, eds., Moments in Modernity: Reconstructing Britain, 1945– 1964 (London: Rivers Oram, 1999), 134–51. 4. See Jane Rendell, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Gender, Space, and Architecture in Regency London (London: Athlone, 2002); Christopher Breward, Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis (Oxford: Berg, 2004), 21–96; Hermoine Hobhouse , A History of Regent Street (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1975); Erika Rappaport , Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001); Mica Nava, “Modernity’s Disavowal: Women, the City and the Department Store,” in Mica Nava and Alan O’Shea, eds., Modern Times: Reflections on a Century of English Modernity (London: Routledge, 1996), 38– 76; Judith R. Walkowitz, “Going Public: Shopping, Street Harassment, and Streetwalking in Late Victorian London,” Representations no. 62 (1998): 1–30. 5. Jerry White, London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People (London: Viking, 2001), 7-12 and 20–21; Gavin Weightman and Steve Humphries, The Making of Modern London, 1914–1939 (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984), 31–34. 6. See Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx and the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder , and Women (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1992), 26– 46; Gill Davies, “Foreign Bodies: Images of the London Working Class at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” Literature and History 14, no. 1 (1988): 64–80; Jeffrey Richards, “Introduction,” to James Greenwood, The Seven Curses of London (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), v–xxi. notes 265 266 notes to introduction 7. See G. R. Searle, The Quest for National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899–1914 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1971); J. Harris, Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain, 1870–1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994). 8. Elizabeth Darling, Re-forming Britain: Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 51–52, 109–10; Weightman and Humphries, The Making of Modern London, 1914–1939, 156–59. 9. Darling, Re-forming Britain. 10. Weightman and Humphries, The Making of Modern London, 1914–1939, 58– 69, 111–16. See also Alan A. Jackson, Semi-detached London: Suburban Development, Life, and Transport, 1900–39, rev. ed. (Didcot: Wild Swan, 1991); and Paul Oliver, Ian Davis, and Ian Bentley, Dunroamin: The Suburban Semi and Its Enemies (London: Pimlico, 1981). 11. White, London in the Twentieth Century, 26. 12. For contemporary alarm at the growth of British cities, see Clough WilliamsEllis , England and the Octopus (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928), and the essays collected in Clough Williams-Ellis, ed., Britain and the Beast (London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1937). Many of the contributors to the latter anthology would go on to become influential figures in the postwar drive for urban renewal. 13. Frank Mort, “Scandalous Events: Metropolitan Culture and Moral Change in Post-Second World War London,” Representations no. 93 (2006): 106–37. 14. Mica Nava, “Wider Horizons and Modern Desire: The Contradictions of America and Racial Difference in London, 1935-45,” New Formations no. 37 (1999): esp. 76-83. 15. John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses (London: Faber, 1992); Keith Williams, British Writers and the Media, 1930–45 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), 70– 94; Gillian Swanson, Drunk with the Glitter: Space, Consumption, and Sexual Instability in Modern Urban Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), esp. 54–72; Sally Alexander, “Becoming a Woman in London in the 1920s and 30s,” in Morag Shiach, ed., Feminism and Cultural Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 200–227; Matt Houlbrook, “‘The Man with the Powder Puff’ in Interwar London,” Historical Journal 50, no. 1 (2007): esp. 154–59 and 166–70. 16. Houlbrook, “‘The Man with the Powder Puff,’” 159–62. 17. Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918–1957 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 139–66. 18. See Morris B. Kaplan, Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times (Ithaca, N...