The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies

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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. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion 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. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies 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. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Literary Urban Studies: An Introduction 2 Teaching Literary Urban Studies Key Concepts 3 The Map in City Literature 4 The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City Literature 5 The Aesthetics of the City 6 Palimpsest 7 Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies Key Genres 8 Urban Satire in Ancient Rome 9 Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian Cities 10 The Metropolitan Miniature 11 The City in Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching City 12 Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations Case Studies 13 The North African City: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces 14 Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge Between the Literary and the Urban in Johannesburg 15 Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return Narratives 16 Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger and Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies 17 The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from France 18 Literary Representations of the 2008 Revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds’ Viewpoint 19 The Russian Provincial Town and the Modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin’s The Town of N 20 Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake Crónicas in Mexico City 21 Mobilities in Montreal Fiction 22 Black Metropolis 23 Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic Imagination 24 Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in Post-2003 Baghdad 25 City Imaginaries From the Margins: Anosh Irani’s Bombay Novels 26 Contemporary Travel Writing of Delhi: From Belatedness and Decay to Globalist Eruption in William Dalrymple’s City of Djinns and Rana Dasgupta’s Capital 27 The Urban Child and Hong Kong’s Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s How Blue Was My Valley 28 An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s Japan New Debates 29 City Outcasts: Perspectives From the Hispanic Female Fantastic 30 Mapping the Informal City in World Literature 31 Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change 32 Future Cities in Literature 33 Translocality in City Literature Index