London in contemporary British fiction :
London in contemporary British fiction : the city beyond the city /
edited by Nick Hubble and Philip Tew.
- xii, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
- Bloomsbury studies in the city .
- Bloomsbury studies in the city. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : parallax London / Nick Hubble and Philip Tew -- Exploring London in Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) : trauma and the traumatological, identity politics and vicarious victimhood / Philip Tew -- Seeing 'the empty space' : Ali Smith's The Accidental / Susan Alice Fischer -- Delineating the liminal in illimitable London : Will Self's The Book of Dave and the cockney visionary / Sebastian Jenner -- The changingman : masculinity, violence and revenge in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog / Nick Bentley -- Peter Ackroyd's London : the sacredness of space and time / Tomasz Niedokos -- Viewing art in London's museums : ekphrasis in selected fiction by Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt and Peter Ackroyd / Doris Bremm -- Iain Sinclair : complexity, imagination and the re-enchanted margins of London Orbital / Laura Colombino -- Feeling London globally : the location of affect in White Teeth / Jung Su -- Agency and conflict in Andrea Levy's polyphonic London / Anja Müller-Wood -- The liminality of underground London / Nora Plefske -- The un-, ab- and alter-Londons of China Miéville : imaginary spaces for concrete subjects / Mark P. Williams -- Common people : class, gender and social change in the London fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie Smith / Nick Hubble.
9781441190192 1441190198
2016285338
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
London (England)--In literature.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : parallax London / Nick Hubble and Philip Tew -- Exploring London in Ian McEwan's Saturday (2005) : trauma and the traumatological, identity politics and vicarious victimhood / Philip Tew -- Seeing 'the empty space' : Ali Smith's The Accidental / Susan Alice Fischer -- Delineating the liminal in illimitable London : Will Self's The Book of Dave and the cockney visionary / Sebastian Jenner -- The changingman : masculinity, violence and revenge in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog / Nick Bentley -- Peter Ackroyd's London : the sacredness of space and time / Tomasz Niedokos -- Viewing art in London's museums : ekphrasis in selected fiction by Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt and Peter Ackroyd / Doris Bremm -- Iain Sinclair : complexity, imagination and the re-enchanted margins of London Orbital / Laura Colombino -- Feeling London globally : the location of affect in White Teeth / Jung Su -- Agency and conflict in Andrea Levy's polyphonic London / Anja Müller-Wood -- The liminality of underground London / Nora Plefske -- The un-, ab- and alter-Londons of China Miéville : imaginary spaces for concrete subjects / Mark P. Williams -- Common people : class, gender and social change in the London fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie Smith / Nick Hubble.
9781441190192 1441190198
2016285338
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
London (England)--In literature.