Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies

<p>Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. <em>The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies</em> provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. </p><p>It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. <em>The Companion</em> covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new debates in the field. The three focal issues are key concepts and genres of literary urban studies; a reassessment and critique of classical urban studies theories and the canon of literary capitals; and methods for the analysis of cities in literature. </p><p><em>The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies</em> provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to the city in literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on city literature. </p><p>Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com</p> <p>Table of contents</p><p>1. Literary Urban Studies: An Introduction</p><p>Lieven Ameel, Tampere University</p><p>2. Teaching Literary Urban Studies</p><p>Lieven Ameel, Tampere University; Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University; Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá; Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi; Silja Laine, Åbo Akademi; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University; Anni Lappela, Helsinki University; Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University; Markku Salmela, Tampere University</p><p>Key Themes</p><p>3.The Map in City Literature</p><p>Liam Lanigan, Governors State University</p><p>4. The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City Literature</p><p>Heidi Liedke, University of Koblenz-Landau</p><p>5. The Aesthetics of the City</p><p>Bart Keunen, Ghent University</p><p>6.The Palimpsest </p><p>Jens Gurr, University of Duisburg-Essen</p><p>7. Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies</p><p>Maria Sulimma, University of Duisburg-Essen<strong> </strong></p><p>Key Genres </p><p>8. Urban Satire in Ancient Rome</p><p>Grace A Gillies, Bates College</p><p>9. Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian Cities</p><p>Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida, and Laura Morreale, independent scholar/Georgetown University</p><p>10.The Metropolitan Miniature</p><p>Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University</p><p><strong> <br><p>11. The City in </p></strong><b>Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching City</b></p><p>Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University</p><p>12. Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations</p><p>Dominic Davies, City, University of London</p><p>Case Studies</p><p>13. The North African city: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces </p><p>Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Columbia University</p><p>14. Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge between the Literary and the Urban in Johannesburg</p><p>Alex Halligey, University of Johannesburg </p><p>15. Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return Narratives</p><p>Anna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland</p><p>16. Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall’s <i>Familiar Stranger </i>(2017) and Hazel Carby’s <i>Imperial Intimacies</i> (2019)</p><p>Julia Hori, University of Cambridge </p><p>17. The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from France</p><p>Michael G. Kelly, University of Limerick </p><p>18. Literary representations of the 2008 revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds’ viewpoint</p><p>Riikka P. Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki</p><p>19. The Russian provincial town and the modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin’s <i>The Town of N</i></p><p>Tintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki</p><p><strong> <br><p>20. </p></strong><b>Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake <i>Crónicas</i> in Mexico City</b></p><p>Liesbeth Francois, KU Leuven</p><p><strong>21. </strong><b>Mobilities in Montreal fiction</b></p><p>Ceri Morgan, Keele University</p><p>22. Black Metropolis</p><p>Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University</p><p>23. Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Haifa’s Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic Imagination</p><p>Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University</p><p><strong> <br><p>24. </p></strong><b>Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in post-2003 Baghdad</b></p><p>Annie Webster, SOAS, University of London</p><p><strong> <br><p>25. </p></strong><b>City Imaginaries from the Margins: Anosh Irani’s Bombay Novels </b></p><p>Rita Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts</p><p>26. Contemporary travel writing of Delhi: from belatedness and decay to globalist eruption in William Dalrymple’s <i>City of Djinns</i> and Rana Dasgupta’s <i>Capital</i></p><p>Tim Hannigan, Technological University of the Shannon</p><p><strong> <br><p>27. </p></strong><b>The Urban Child, Hong Kong’s Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s <i>How Blue Was My Valley</i></b></p><p>Liz Ho, University of Hong Kong</p><p>28. An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s Japan</p><p>Franz Prichard, Princeton University</p><p>New Debates</p><p>29. City outcasts: perspectives from the Hispanic female fantastic</p><p>Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá</p><p>30. Mapping the Informal City in World Literature</p><p>Eric Prieto, UC Santa Barbara</p><p>31. Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change </p><p>Davy Knittle, College of New Jersey</p><p>32. Future cities in literature</p><p>Paul Dobraszczyk, Bartlett School of Architecture</p><p><strong> <br><p>33. </p></strong><b>Translocality in City Literature</b></p><p>Lena Mattheis, University of Duisburg-Essen</p>