Ameel, Lieven
Literary Second Cities
Part I. Defining the Second City
1. The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics
Jason Finch, Lieven Ameel, Markku Salmela
2. World Cities and Second Cities: Imagining Growth and Hybridity in Modern Literature
Bart Keunen
Part II. In the Shadow of the Alpha City
3. Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham
Jason Finch
4. “A Sort of Second London in Every Thing but Vitiousness”: Bristol in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1700–1750
Adam Borch
5. Cities Within a Second City: The Case of Literary Tartu
Mart Velsker, Ene-Reet Soovik
6. Still Learning from Las Vegas: Imagining America’s Urban Other
Markku Salmela
Part III. Frontier Second Cities
7. The Capital of Otherness: A Geocritical Exploration of Diyarbakır, Turkey
Francesco Marilungo
8. Narva: A Literary Border Town
Elle-Mari Talivee
Part IV. The Diffuse Second City
9. Riku Korhonen’s
Lieven Ameel, Tuomas Juntunen
10. “Away from Here to Tjottahejti”: Spatial and Sexual (Re-)Orientation in Places of Secondariness in Contemporary Swedish Fiction
Sophie Wennerscheid
11. Moving Beyond Venice: Literary Landscapes of Movement in Northern Italy’s “Diffused City”
Giada Peterle
Keywords: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology
- Editor
- Ameel, Lieven
- Finch, Jason
- Salmela, Markku
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 16 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319627199
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-62718-2