London in Contemporary British Fiction : The City Beyond the City Hardback
Edited by Dr Nick (Brunel University, London, UK) Hubble, Professor Philip (Brunel University, United Kingdom) Tew
Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in the City series
Hardback
Description
Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years.
This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London's unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future.
The volume creates a framework for new approaches to the representation of London required by the unprecedented social uncertainties of recent years: an invaluable contribution to studies of contemporary writing about London.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:28/07/2016
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- ISBN:9781441190192
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:28/07/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781441190192