Overview

Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future. The volume creates a framework for new approaches to the representation of London required by the unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.

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Author:   Dr Nick Hubble (Brunel University, London, UK) ,  Professor Philip Tew (Brunel University, United Kingdom) ,  Lynn Wells
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781441190192

ISBN 10:   1441190198
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Parallax London Nick Hubble and Philip Tew 1. Exploring London in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005): Trauma and the Traumatological, Identity Politics, and Vicarious Victimhood. Philip Tew 2. Seeing ‘the empty space’: Ali Smith’s The Accidental Susan Alice Fischer 3. Delineating the Liminal in Illimitable London: Will Self’s The Book of Dave and the Cockney Visionary Sebastian Jenner 4. The Changingman: Masculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog Nick Bentley 5. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Sacredness of Space and Time Tomasz Niedokos 6. London’s Museum Spaces in the Works of A.S. Byatt and Peter Ackroyd Doris Bremm 7. ‘An Infinitely Accommodating Substance’: Chaos Theory and States Between in Sinclair’s London. Laura Colombino 8. Feeling London Globally: The Location of Affect in White Teeth Jung Su 9. Agency and Conflict in Andrea Levy’s Polyphonic London Anja Müller-Wood 10. The Liminality of Underground London Nora Pleßke 11.The Un-, Ab-, and Alter-Londons of China Miéville: Imaginary Spaces for Concrete Subjects. Mark P. Williams 12. Common People: Class, Gender and Social Change in the London Fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie Smith Nick Hubble Index

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This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city's contemporary moment. * Modern Language Review * Achieves more than merely celebrating London's hybridity ... The volume is essential reading for specialists, while general readers may be intimidated by the extensive technical language. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *

This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city's contemporary moment. * Modern Language Review *

This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city’s contemporary moment. * Modern Language Review * Achieves more than merely celebrating London’s hybridity ... The volume is essential reading for specialists. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *

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Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University London, UK. Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

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