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London in contemporary British fiction : the city beyond the city / edited by Nick Hubble and Philip Tew.

Contributor(s): Hubble, Nick, 1965- [editor.] | Tew, Philip [editor.]Series: Bloomsbury studies in the cityPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016Description: xii, 214 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781441190192; 1441190198Subject(s): English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism | London (England) -- In literature
Contents:
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.
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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.