Title The materiality of literary narratives in urban history / edited by Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch, Silja Laine and Richard Dennis

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) Series Routledge advances in urban history Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Urban History and the Materialities of/in Literature; PART I: Literary Fiction as Urban Materiality; 2 Between the Street and the Drawing Room: Slumming in Eliot's Early Poetry; 3 Recycling Fictions in the City: Don DeLillo and the Materiality of Waste; 4 Embodied Experience of London's Material Structures in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor; 5 Sensory Environments of Poverty Seen through the Writings of Runar Schildt, Toivo Tarvas, and Elvi Sinervo 6 'Quite an aristocratic place, although in Whitechapel': Hospital Topographies and Margaret Harkness's Writing of LondonPART II: Literary Narratives as Social Investigations of the Material City; 7 'The Casey Court House Builders': 1930s Children's Comics and the Material Transformation of East London; 8 'On the Square': Constructing the Dangers of Depression-Era London in Ada Chesterton's Social Investigations; 9 'Would you Adam-and-Eve-it?': Geography, Materiality, and Authenticity in Novels of Victorian and Edwardian London 10 The Literary Adventure of the Skyscraper in France (1893-1930): Literary Narratives and Urban Architecture between Fiction and RealityPART III: Narrating Silenced Material Lives; 11 The Unconfessed Architectures of Cape Town; 12 City Tales in Dialogue: Vijayanagara through Travelogues and Archaeology; 13 '. . . will never become quiet': The Materiality of Narrative and Memory in Trickster City; Index Summary "The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what literary texts, grasped as material objects and as reflections on urban materialities, have to offer for urban history. The contributing writers' approach to literary narratives and materialities in urban history is summarized within the conceptualization 'materiality in/of literature': the way in which literary narratives at once refer to the material world and also actively partake in the material construction of the world. This book takes a geographically multipolar and multidisciplinary approach to discuss cities in the UK, USA, India, South Africa, Finland, and France, whilst examining a wide range of textual genres from the novel to cartoons, advertising copy, architecture and urban planning, and archaeological writing. In the process, attention is drawn to narrative complexities embedded within literary fiction and to the dialogue between narratives and historical change. The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History has three areas of focus: literary fiction as form of urban materiality, literary narratives as social investigations of the material city, and the narrating of silenced material lives as witnessed in various narrative sources"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Lieven Ameel is Senior Research Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Research interests include encounters in public space, city literature, urban futures, and narratives in urban planning. Jason Finch teaches at Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He is the author or editor of six books, most recently Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and Literary Second Cities (co-edited, 2017). Research interests include modern urban literatures, especially UK and US, andtheories and methodologies of space and place in literary studies. Silja Laine is an urban historian with a background in cultural history and landscape studies. Her research interests range from urban literature and visual culture to environmental humanities. She currently works as a post-doctoral researcher in Landscape Architecture at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland. Richard Dennis is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London. He is co-editor of Architectures of Hurry (2018) and author of Cities in Modernity (2008) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century London and Toronto, including essays on literary representations of both cities Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2019) Subject Cities and towns in literature. Cities and towns in mass media. Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects Cities and towns -- History Cities and towns -- Historiography HISTORY -- General. HISTORY -- Historical Geography. HISTORY -- Social History. Cities and towns Cities and towns -- Historiography Cities and towns in literature Cities and towns in mass media Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ameel, Lieven, 1978- editor. Finch, Jason, editor. Laine, Silja, editor. Dennis, Richard, 1949- editor. LC no. 2019981181 ISBN 0429325053 9781000502534 1000502538 9781000497595 1000497593 9781000507478 1000507475 9780429325052

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