Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Michael, Magali Cornier (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Literary Urban Studies,
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Cities and towns-History.; Sociology, Urban.; Contemporary Literature.; Urban History.; Urban Studies/Sociology.

The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain's experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, and the European Union (E...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City: Magali Cornier Michael
• 2. "Why Should You Go Out?": Encountering the City in Monica Ali's Brick Lane: Nick Bentley
• 3. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Urban England?: Jon McGregor's If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: Magali Cornier Michael
• 4 "We exist only in the reflection of others": Imagining London's History in Bernadine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe: Nicola Allen
• 5. Gated Communities and Dystopia in J.G. Ballard's Super-Cannes: Francesco Di Bernardo
• 6. Celetoids and the City: Tabloidization of the Working Class in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Martin Amis' Lionel Asbo: State of England: Megan Faragher
• 7. Belonging and Un-belonging in London: Representations of Home in Diana Evans' 26a: Katie Danaher
• 8 Between Urban Ecology and Social Construction: Environment and the Ethics of Representation in Zadie Smith's NW: John Hadlock
• 9.The Queer Gothic Spaces of Contemporary Glasgow: Louise Welsh's The Cutting Room: Emily Horton
• 10 Convulsions of the Local: Contemporary British Psychogeographical Fiction: Ella Mudie
• 11. Trauma, Negativities and the City in Trezza Azzopardi's Remember Me: Philip Tew.