TY - BOOK AU - Hubble,Nick AU - Tew,Philip TI - London in contemporary British fiction: the city beyond the city T2 - Bloomsbury studies in the city SN - 9781441190192 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - English literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 21st century KW - London (England) KW - In literature N1 - 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 ER -