The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies (Routledge Literature Companions)

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. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at 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 1 Half Title 2 Series 3 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Illustrations 10 List of Contributors 11 Acknowledgments 15 1 Literary Urban Studies: An Introduction 18 2 Teaching Literary Urban Studies 28 Key Concepts 44 3 The Map in City Literature 46 4 The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City Literature 61 5 The Aesthetics of the City 74 6 Palimpsest 89 7 Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies 104 Key Genres 120 8 Urban Satire in Ancient Rome 122 9 Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian Cities 137 10 The Metropolitan Miniature 153 11 The City in Crime Fiction: The Case of Bologna as a Branching City 166 12 Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations 180 Case Studies 194 13 The North African City: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces 196 14 Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge Between the Literary and the Urban in Johannesburg 210 15 Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return Narratives 226 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 240 17 The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from France 254 18 Literary Representations of the 2008 Revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds’ Viewpoint 270 19 The Russian Provincial Town and the Modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin’s The Town of N 288 20 Shaping the Right to the Megalopolis: Earthquake Crónicas in Mexico City 301 21 Mobilities in Montreal Fiction 316 22 Black Metropolis 330 23 Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic Imagination 350 24 Writing Urban Warfare: Pedestrian Perspectives in Post-2003 Baghdad 363 25 City Imaginaries From the Margins: Anosh Irani’s Bombay Novels 377 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 390 27 The Urban Child and Hong Kong’s Public Housing and Public Space in Yeung Hok-Tat’s How Blue Was My Valley 405 28 An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s Japan 423 New Debates 436 29 City Outcasts: Perspectives From the Hispanic Female Fantastic 438 30 Mapping the Informal City in World Literature 453 31 Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change 468 32 Future Cities in Literature 481 33 Translocality in City Literature 496 Index 507 Teaching;,Literature;,Ancient Teaching,Literature,Ancient 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. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com