Ameel, Lieven
Literature and the Peripheral City
1. Introduction: Peripherality and Literary Urban Studies
Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch, Markku Salmela
Part I. City Peripheries
2. Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit
Jeremy Tambling
3. “It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” Urban Peripherality and the Narrative Framing of Literary Beginnings
Lieven Ameel
4. The Peripheries of London Slumland in George Gissing and Alexander Baron
Jason Finch
5. A Topography of Refuse: Waste, the Suburb, and Pynchon’s “Low-lands”
Markku Salmela
6. London’s East End in Peter Ackroyd’s
Aleksejs Taube
7. The Configuration of Boundaries and Peripheries in Johannesburg as Represented in Selected Works by Ivan Vladislavić and Zakes Mda
Marita Wenzel
Part II. Peripheral Cities, Genres and Writers
8. Hungry and Alone: The Topography of Everyday Life in Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg
Tone Selboe
9. A Forest on the Edge of Helsinki: Spatiality in Henrika Ringbom’s Novel
Topi Lappalainen
10. Eduard Vilde and Tallinn’s Dynamic Peripheries, 1858–1903
Elle-Mari Talivee, Jason Finch
11. A Suburban Revision of Nostalgia: the Case of
Bieke Willem
12. From Windowsill to Underpass: Young Women’s Spatial Orientation in Swedish Young Adult Literature
Lydia Wistisen
13. Centrifugal City: Centre and Periphery in Ricardo Piglia’s
Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer
Keywords: Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Literature, general, European Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature
- Editor
- Ameel, Lieven
- Finch, Jason
- Salmela, Markku
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 256 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137492883
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-50470-1