Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Topics
About the Editor
Contributors
Introduction
Cities in History
Modernity and the City
Areas for Research
The Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
References
Further Reading
A
Aberdeen
Absinthe
Acculturation in New York
Acropolis
Adaptation
African Cities: Modernity and Slums, Urban Literature, and Culture
Introduction
Pioneer Writers
Colonization
Decolonization
Urbanization
Urban Problems
War in Africa
Urban Slums
Lagos
Nairobi, Mombasa, and Dar-es-Salaam
Nairobi and Kibera
Kinshasa
Lubumbashi
Conclusion
Bibliography
Further Reading
African Literature
Ahmed Essop´s Johannesburg
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Stories of Inner City Diversity Despite Segregation
Beyond the Inner City After Apartheid
Cross-References
References
Alexander Pope
Alexandria
Alfred Döblin´s Journey to Poland
Introduction
Biographical Note
Döblin As Objective Observer
The Capital City: Warsaw
Comparing Other Cities: Wilno/Vilnius, Lublin, Lwów, Cracow, Lodz
Conclusion
References
Algeria
Algerian Cities: Kateb Racine´s Nedjma
Synonyms
Definition
Algeria
Context for the Novel
Kateb Yacine
Nedjma
Constantine
Bône
Djerba
Bibliography and Further Reading
Algerian War of Independence
Allen Fisher´s Poetry and the City
Introduction
Place´s ``Decoherent´´ Foundations
Against ``Symbolic Attachment´´: Tensions in Mythmaking and Research
In Search of London´s ``Lost Rivers´´
Works Cited
Works by Allen Fisher
Other Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Recommended Further Reading
Almodóvar and Madrid
Almodóvar´s Early Career
Commercial Success in Spain
International Success
References
Ambulatory Poetry
American Cities
American Expatriates
Amitav Ghosh and the Ibis Trilogy
Introduction
Charles Dickens: From London to ``Saugur Point´´
The Ibis Trilogy and Imperial History
Writing ``Calcutta´´ in Sea of Poppies
Conclusion
References
André Breton
Ann Hui´s Cinematics of the Ordinary: July Rhapsody (2002)
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
The Story of the Son
The Cinema of Everyday Life
Political Allegory
Conclusion
References
Anti-Semitism
Apartheid Versus Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
Arabic Novel
Arcades
Arcades Project
Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin
The Idea of the ``Arcades´´
Mapping the Arcades Project
Benjamin´s Artists
The Dialectical Image
Benjamin´s Histories
Old and New Paris
References
Architecture
Argentina
Art Deco Versus International Style in Johannesburg Architecture
Art-House Cinema
Arthur Hughes
Artistic Collaboration
Ashcan School
Asia
Asian Phantasmagorias of the Interior
References
At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
The North Wind in London
Critical Reception
Cross-References
References
Atget and Marville, Photographers of Paris
Atget´s Legacy
Charles Marville
Atget
References
Athens
Athens and Travel Literature
Synonyms
Introduction
Name and Myth
History
Early Modern Travelers and the Reemergence of Athens
Travelers and Tourists in Nineteenth-Century Athens
``Belated Wayfarers´´ in Twentieth-Century Athens
Conclusion
References
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Aura
Australian Literature
Austria-Hungary
Autobiografiction
Autobiography
B
Bakhtin
Bakhtin and Cities: Petersburg, Paris, and Rome
Bakhtin: Biography
Bakhtin and Dostoevsky
Rabelais and His World
City Squares and the Chronotope
Bibliography and Further Reading
Baldwin, James: Multisensorial Spaces of Harlem, New York
Harlem in James Baldwin´s Oeuvre
Cross-sensory Awareness in ``Previous Condition´´
Multisensorial Harlem in Little Man, Little Man
References
Balzac
Balzac´s Life
Introductory: On Reading Balzac
The Comédie Humaine
Reading the Comédie Humaine
Balzac´s Paris
La Peau de Chagrin
Balzac the Realist
Cross-References
References
Balzac: Cousin Pons
Synonyms
Introduction
The Plot
Writing the Text
Paris and Cousin Pons
Paris Slums
Cross-References
References
Balzac: Cousin Bette
References
Balzac: Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot)
Synonyms
References
Balzac: Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes
Synonyms
Definition
Prostitution
References
Balzac: The History of the Thirteen (Historie des Treize)
Synonyms
Ferragus
La Fille aux Yeux d´Or
References
Barnes, Djuna
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction: Urban Spaces
Some Biography
New York - Greenwich Village Bohemia
Paris and the American Expatriates
Cross-References
References
Barney Simon as Director, Writer, and Animator
Barney Simon´s Johannesburg
Synonyms
Introduction/Definition
Early Collaborations
Writing and Directing the Inner City
Simon, the Market Theatre, and Johannesburg
Cross-References
References
Further Reading
Baroque
Baroque Venice
Definition
Introduction
Cross-References
References
Barthes
Basic English
Bathos and Parodic Contrast
Baudelaire
Baudelaire and Benjamin: `Le vin des chiffonniers´
Synonyms
Definition
Le vin des chiffonniers
Cross-References
Bibliography
Further Reading
Baudelaire: Life
Life Before Les Fleurs du Mal
Writings
Life Continued: Brussels, and Death
References
Baudelaire: The Painter of Modern Life
Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness
Artist, Man of the World, Man of Crowds, and Child
La Modernité
The Dandy and Women
``Les Femmes et les Filles´´
References
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
Synonyms
A Post-Theological, Post-Romantic Aesthetics
Haussmann´s Paris
``Tableaux Parisiens´´
Humanity, Immorality, and Empathy
Bibliography
Be´er Sheva as Periphery
Be´er-Sheva as a `Third Space´
Be´er-Sheva in Shulamit Lapid´s Lizzie Badii Series
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
The City of Be´er-Sheva
The Landscape of Be´er-Sheva in the Novels
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Be´er-Sheva the Capital of the Negev
Beau Brummell
Beijing: A Cultural History
Ji City: The beginning of Beijing
Youzhou City: Between Chinese and Nomads
Nanjing and Zhongdu: Becoming a Capital
Dadu: Established Capital of All China
Under Chinese Ming Dynasty
Under Manchu Qing Dynasty
Ming and Qing Traditions
Modern Upheavals
Rejuvenation by Westernization
Beijing Dialect and Language Reforms
Under the People´s Republic of China (the PRC)
Bibliography
Beijing: City and Film
Beginning
Arts
Trades and Lifestyles
The City
Beijingers, Old Vs. New
An Open Ending
References
Belfast
Ben Okri: The Famished Road
The Famished Road
Reading Okri
Bibliography
Benjamin, Surrealism, and Paris
Synonyms
Introduction to Surrealism
``Dreamkitsch´´
Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia
Technology and Revolution
References
Benjamin, Walter
Synonyms
References
Benjamin, Walter, Siegfried Kraucauer, T.W. Adorno, and Companions Writing the City
Synonyms
Flaneuring on the Asphalt
A Neapolitan Light
Books and Cities
Bibliography
Benjamin, Walter: Berlin Childhood Around 1900
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction: Benjamin and Berlin
A Berlin Chronicle
``Berlin Childhood Around 1900´´: 1938
Berlin Childhood Around 1900-1934 Version
Cross-References
Bibliography
Further Reading
Berdychev
Berlin
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Introduction
The Author
The Novel: Origins
Structure
Plot/Story
Narrative Technique
The City as Text
Reception/Adaptation
References
Further Reading
Berlin: An Overview
Introduction
Myths of the City
History
Modern Berlin
Topography
Hoffmann and ``My Co Corner Window´´
Berlin´s Writers
East and West Berlin in Memory
References
Further Reading
Bezmozgis
Bilingualism
The Billboard Community: The Visual Culture of Seoul and Its Multiplicity
Introduction
Ganpan as a Form of Life
The Scholarship of Signage in Korea and Beyond
Design Seoul: The Practice of Signage from the Outside
The City of the Bang: On the Multiplicity of Signage
References
Biography
Birmingham as ``Composite Monster´´: Roy Fisher´s City (1961)
Planner-Preservationist Contexts
Modernism and Urban Space
``A Composite Monster´´: Unifying the City
Public and Private Cities
Conclusion
References
Bleak House
Synonyms
Definition
Cross-References
References
Bollywood
Book Illustration
Book Trade
Border Crossing
Borders
Borges and Buenos Aires: Creating Place from Space in Poetry and Prose
Introduction
Buenos Aires in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Immigration and Cultural Change
The City Center Versus the Outskirts
The Urban Space
A Sense of Belonging
Early Images of Buenos Aires in Borges´s Writing
Borges in Short Fiction Related to Space, Place, and Buenos Aires
Conclusion
References
Bourgeois - Middle Class, Capitalistic
Bowery
Brasília and the Literature It Has Inspired
References
Breasts and Eggs
Brecht
Brecht in Berlin
Definition
Introduction
References
Further Reading
Broad Church
Broken Glass: Alain Mabanckou
Brazzaville
Mabanckou
Broken Glass
Cross-References
Bibliography
Further Reading
Brooklyn Neighborhoods in the Making
Capturing Brooklyn´s Neighborhoods: A History in Reverse
Critical Stories of Neighborhoods in the Making
Conclusion: For an Urbanized Literary Hermeneutic
References
Bucharest and Chicago: A Tale of Two Cities in Saul Bellow´s The Dean´s December
Introduction: A Tale of Two Cities
The Chicago That Was and the Chicago That Is
The Genesis of The Dean´s December
Corde´s Chicago
The Influence of Blake and Shelley on Corde´s Thinking
``The First Act of Morality´´
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Budapest as a Product of the Biedermeier Imagination
Big Cities
Buda and Pest
Biedermeier Culture
The Imagined City
The Imagined Village
Conclusion
References
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, 1910 Centenary of the Nation
Synonyms
References
Bulgakov, Moscow, and The Master and Margarita
Synonyms
Definition
Biography
Bulgakov in Moscow
The Master and Margarita
Conclusion
Bibliography
Further Reading
Bureaucracy
Byron
C
Cairene Society
Cairo as Capital of Arabic Literature and Cinema
Cairo´s Intelligentsia
Cairo´s Multifaceted Existence
Cairo´s Representation
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth: A Leap out of Murderer´s Row
Synonyms
Introduction
Cross-References
References
Calvinism
Cantina - Bar
Captain Pantoja and the Secret Service
Caribbean
Caricature
Carlos Fuentes and Mexico City
Social Class and Urban Space in Early Works
The Mask: Mexico City as a Layered Totality
Urban Space as Uncontained Apocalypse of Modernity
A Shifting Urban Center, Periphery, and Diaspora
Final Musings on Mexican Urban Space and Society
Bibliography
Carnival
Cercle zutique
Césaire
César Vallejo´s Paris in Peru
Introduction
Toward a Periodical Modernism
The Modernist Chronicle
Shrinking Lima Down to Size
The Disappointing City
Social Trends and Instrumentality
References
Charles Ephrussi
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Further Readings
Cheng Xiaoqing
Cheng Xiaoqing and the Genesis of Chinese Detective Fiction
Synonyms
Definition
Reference
Chicago
Chicago and the Irish-American Identity Crisis in J.T. Farrell´s Studs Lonigan Trilogy (1932-1935)
Introduction: The American Dream, the Studs Lonigan Trilogy, and the Melting Pot
South Side Chicago and Irish-American Identity
Ethnic Nationalism
Masculinity and the Rejection of the Domestic
Farrell and the Urban Novel
Conclusion
References
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Child
Children´s Literature
Chinese Detective Fiction
Chiswick
Christian Socialism
Christina Stead
Christina Stead´s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934): Eccentric Modernism and Radical Politics in an Australian Metropolis
Synonyms
Definition
Plot and Character
Telling Tales: Innovations and Renovation of the Urban Novel
Cross-References
References and Further Reading
Cinematic Berlin and the Construction of Identity and Alterity in Postwar Germany
Introduction
Berlin in Film: A Background
Stunde Null
The Reorganization of the German Film Industry (1945)
Mountains of Rubble (1946-1948)
Films Produced in the Soviet-Occupied Zone
Films Produced in the Western Sectors
East-West Competition (1949-1960)
Crafting Distinctive Identities (1961-1965)
Remarks
References
Cities in Hou Hsiao-Hsien´s Cinema
Introduction
The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
A City of Sadness (1989)
Daughter of the Nile (1987)
Good Men, Good Women (1995)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Cities in Lucía Puenzo´s Films
References and Further Readings
Cities in Ruins in Modern Poetry
Synonyms
Works Cited
Cities in the South Asia Subcontinent
South Asia: The Territory
Cities
Languages in South Asia
Sri Lanka
Vedas
Indian History: From the Indus Valley
Puranas
Buddhism and Jainism
Caste
Bibliography and Further Reading
Citizenship, Diaspora, and Toronto in Bezmozgis´ Immigrant City
Synonyms
Cross-References
References
Further Reading
The City as Pure Feeling: Cavafy´s Alexandria
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
References
City Comedy and Bartholomew Fair
Synonyms
The Importance of Being Local
Comedies of London Versus City Comedy
Sex and Money: Theatre of a City
Native, Foreign, and Non-native: Encounters with the Other in London
``Made to Delight All´´: Exclusionary Laughter
Cross-References
Works Cited
City Mysteries
City Snapshots: Walter Benjamin´s ``Little History of Photography´´
Synonyms
Early Photography
Benjamin and Barthes
The Optical Unconscious
The Aura: And Atget
Atget and the City
References
City-Without-Any-Quality (CWAQ) and Its Counterparts
Introduction
Part 1: CWAQ or the City for a Man Without Quality
Part 2: CWAQ and Marc Augé´s Non-places
Part 3: CWAQ and Gilles Deleuze´s Any-Space-Whatever
Part 4: CWAQ and CoO in Reference to Courtės and Greimas´ Spatial Location Semiotic Square
Part 5: CWAQ and Its Counterpart: The City-with-Too-Many-Qualities
Part 6: Positive and Negative Forms of the CTMQ
Conclusion
References
Classical Epic and the Mock-Heroic
Clerkenwell
Clerks
Clothing
Cologne
From Bonne Ville to ``body and soul-stinking town´´: Romantic Cologne
An Eolian Harp and Piranesian Dungeon: Cologne Cathedral
Fleeting Encounters in Post-Romantic Cologne: Tourists, Prostitutes, and Fascists
From Felix Colonia to Phoenix Cologne
Further Readings
Colonialism
Commodity
Commune
Conduct Literature
Conrad and the City
The City in Conrad
The Monstrous City
The City as Spider´s Web
The Superficially Civilized City
The Derealized City
Conrad´s Cities
Eastern Europe
Warsaw
St. Petersburg
Cracow
Francophone Cities
Marseilles
Brussels
Montpellier
Paris
Australia
Sydney
Melbourne
Adelaide
Southeast Asia
Singapore
Bombay
Bangkok
British Isles
Lowestoft
London
Acknowledgment
References
Conspiracy
Contributions to Punch
Conversation in the Cathedral
Copenhagen
Definition
Copenhagen as Literature
The Curious Crowd
The Bourgeois City
Into the Modern City
In the Modern City
The International City
References
Cosmopolitanism
Crime
Crime and Punishment
Synonyms
Introduction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Cruikshank, George
Synonyms
Definition
Life and Works
References
Further Reading
D
Dada and Surrealism and American Cities
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Duchamp and Futurism
Duchamp in New York
New York and Dada
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Realism, and the Ashcan School
Chicago and Greenwich Village
Mina Loy
Insel
Conclusion
Cross-References
Further Reading
Dada and Surrealism and European Cities
Definition
Zurich
Paris
Breton
Breton´s Cities
Picasso
References and Further Reading
The Dandy
Synonyms
Definition
Development of the Idea of the Dandy
Brummell
D´Aurevilly on Brummell
Cross-References
References
Daniel Libeskind and Deconstructive Architecture: Osnabrück and Berlin
Synonyms
Definition
Deconstructive Architecture
Eisenman´s Memorial
Libeskind
Cross-References
Further Reading
Daumier
Debord, Guy
Introduction
Life
Situationism
The Dérive and Détournement
Psychogeography
The Spectacle
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
Cross-References
References
Decadence
Defoe, Cities and the Plague
Introduction
The Perils of Sociability
Epidemic Sociability
Sociable Impulses
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Defoe, Daniel and London
Introduction
The Person of an Itinerant
The Disaster of London
Double Vision
Walking the City
Growth, Entropy, and Empire
Names and Symbols
References
Deleuzean Perambulations: Urban and Rural Walking in W.G. Sebald
Introduction
The Rhizome and Urban Flâneurism
Urban Walking in Austerlitz
Walking with De Certeau, Freud, and Heidegger
Walking Through Rural England: Canine Steps in the Rings of Saturn
Rhizomatic Tracks of Pain
From Hölderlin to Heidegger
Bibliography
Detective
Detour
Devil
Dhaka and Akhtaruzzaman Elias
Elias´s Life
Literary Context
Elias´s Urban Fiction
The Structural and Narratorial Route to Elias´s Dhaka
Culture and History of Old Dhaka in Short Stories
The Subterranean World of Dreams
Dhaka´s Squalor and Existential Angst in Post-independence Bangladesh
Women in Elias´s Dhaka
Dhaka in Chilekothar Sepai
Conclusion
References
Dhaka and Bangladesh
Introduction
The Historical Context
From Obscure Beginnings to Mughal Capital
Colonial Times
After Partition
In the People´s Republic of Bangladesh
References
Further Reading
Dialectical Image
Dickens
Dickens, the City, and the Prison
Definition
References
Dickens, Great Expectations and the Thames
Definition
The Thames
Rochester
London
Cross-References
Bibliography
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Introduction
References
Drifting
Driving Versus Walking the City
Dublin
Duchamp
Dunciad, The, (Alexander Pope): The Literary Topography of Eighteenth-Century London
Introduction
London in The Dunciad
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Durrell´s Alexandria
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
References
Dystopia
E
East India Company
Eastwood and D.H. Lawrence
Eça de Queirós´s Lisbon: Between Paris and the Mountains
References
Edmund Curll
Edward Said and New York
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
References
Edward Yang
Edward Yang, Taipei, and Fredric Jameson
Introduction
Taipei Story (1985)
Spaces and Characters
Dwelling in the City
Terrorizers (1986)
Taipei, Jameson, and Postmodernism
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Egyptian Cinema
El Visitador
Emotional Geography
Empson, William (1906-1984)
Synonyms
Introduction
Conclusion
References
Engels
Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England
Definition
Biography
Manchester and Literature
Engels and ``The Great Towns´´ : London
Towns Outside London
Manchester
Conclusion
Bibliography and Further Reading
Ennui
Enrique Gómez Carrillo
Erich Kästner and Berlin
Definition
Biography
Berlin Sexuality
Fabian
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Essop as an Indian Muslim Writer
Etobicoke
Eugène Sue, Les Mystères de Paris (The Mysteries of Paris)
Synonyms
Cross-References
Further Reading
Everyday Hong Kong and the Writings of Yesi
Synonyms
The Everyday in Leung´s Poetry
Everyday Food and Storytelling
References
Everyday Life
Exile
Extermination Camps
External Focalization
Extraneous - Foreign, External
F
Fanny Burney and Bath
Works Cited and Consulted
Fantasy
Fashion
Felix Nussbaum: Osnabrück to Auschwitz
Synonyms
Definition
Life
Urban Images
Libeskind´s Museum
Cross-References
Further Reading
Fenyang, China: From Xiao Wu to Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Voice of Literature
``Cast a Cold Eye on the World.´´ (Jia Pingwa)
``As Long as I Write, It Is Like Coming Home´´ (Yu Hua 2019)
``My Hometown Is Liang Zhuang´´ (Liang Hong 2016)
The Language of Sound
Michelangelo Antonioni´s Chung Kuo-Cina as Intertext
Xiao Wu and Platform: Filmic Memories
Voice of Hometown
Intermezzo
The Language of Silence
References
Further Reading
Fergus Hume: Dunedin and Melbourne
Further Reading
Film Noir
Finances and Focalization in Flynn´s Gone Girl
The Aftermath of 2008
Reading Cities, Reading Characters
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Flâneurie
The Flâneur
The High Age of the Parisian Flâneur
The Modernist Flâneur
The Contemporary Flâneur and Flâneuse
References
Florence in the Nineteenth Century c. 1840-c. 1900 (2): Foreign Residents, Visitors, and Writing
Introduction: Long-Term Residents
Political Attitudes in the 1840s
Visitors´ Perceptions
The Florentine Novel
Sights, Spectacles, Souvenirs
Scholars, Translators, and Aesthetes
References
Further Readings
Online Sources
Florence in the Nineteenth Century c. 1840-c. 1900 (51): Italian Writing and Culture
Introduction: Florence´s Political Role
Writing in and About the City
Monuments, Memory, Nationality
Journalism, Publishing, Libraries
Urban Development
Culture and Politics c. 1880-c. 1900
References
Further Readings
Online Sources
Fog
Fontane´s Berlin
Synonyms
Definition
Historical Context
Sex and the City
Berlin and Brandenburg
Further Reading
Forster´s (Un)Seen City
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Frank O´Hara and the New York Poets
Frank O´Hara´s Life
The New York School
Introductory: On Reading O´Hara
O´Hara and Experience
O´Hara, Creation, and Autobiography
O´Hara´s New York
O´Hara and Walking
O´Hara and the Urban Pastoral
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Franz Hessel
Frith, William Powell
Synonyms
Introduction
London Locations in the Work of W. P. Frith
Cross-References
Further Readings
From Public to Private: Space and Heterotopia in the Writings of Pai Hsien-Yung
General Introduction
Presentation of Crystal Boys
The Kingdom of Night in Taipei New Park
From Taipei to New York: Urban Exile to the West
Heterotopia in the Fictional World of Pai Hsien-Yung
Conclusion
References
G
Galdós and Madrid
Synonyms
Definition
The Construction of Modern Madrid
Galdós´s Personal Experience of Madrid
Galdós´s Depiction of Madrid: An Overview
La desheredada (1881)
Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-1887)
Misericordia (1897)
References
Further Reading
Gandhi
Gangs
Gao Xingjian and the Hong Kong Handover
Essay: Gao Xingjian and the Hong Kong Handover
References
Gaskell, Elizabeth, and Manchester
Synonyms
Introduction
``Elbowed Daily´´: Manchester and Ambivalence
Manchester: ``Town´´ or ``City´´?
Gaskell´s Endings: Evading the Problem of Manchester?
References and Further Reading
Gentrification
Gentrification, Mobility, and the Representation of Toronto in Atwood´s The Testaments
Synonyms
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
George Gissing´s The Nether World and Clerkenwell
Synonyms
References
George Gissing´s Thyrza and Lambeth
Synonyms
References
George Orwell
Giedion
Giedion, Sigfried
Ironwork
Art and Technology
Benjamin and Giedion
References
The Gift and Torment of Lesbian Bars in Audre Lorde´s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Introduction
Audre Lorde and New York
Cities Within Cities
Wearing Their Lesbian Hats
Garnering Spatial Edges
Conclusion
References
Gilead
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
References
Gio Black Peter
Gio Black Peter´s Sublime Subway Maps: Reading the Routes of a Queer New York City
Synonyms
Queer Mapping
Reading Gio Black Peter´s Subway Maps
Conclusion
References
Gissing´s Representation of 1870s Fitzrovia
``[D]reams of the Coming Revolution´´: Gissing´s Workers in the Dawn
Dickensian Echoes
References
Glissant, Edouard
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Glissant and the Caribbean
Glissant: Biography
Writing the Caribbean
Poetics of Relation (1997)
Carthage: Black Salt
Conclusion
Cross-References
Bibliography
Further Reading
Global North Versus Global South in Johannesburg
Globalization and the City in Mohsin Hamid´s Novels
Globalization
Global City
Hamid´s Cities
Bibliography
Gogol
Gogol and Petersburg and Other Cities
Introduction
Biography
Gogol the Writer
Petersburg in Christmas Eve, Nevsky Prospekt, the Nose, the Overcoat, Diary of a Madman, and the Portrait
On Present Day Architecture
Dead Souls
Conclusion
Cross-References
Bibliography
Further Reading
Golgonooza
Synonyms
References
Further Reading
Gonzlez Prada, Manuel: Lima, the Colonial City in Postcolonial Peru
References
Greece
Greenwich Village
Grossman, Life and Fate and the Second World War
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction: Grossman´s Life
Ukraine
Grossman in Soviet Russia
The Battle of Stalingrad
``Stalingrad´´ and ``Life and Fate´´
The Post-Catastrophic City
Bibliography
Grub Street
Synonyms
Introduction
Near Moorfields in London
The Quintescence of Grub Street
Scriblerian Geography
The Antiquities of Grub Street
Conclusion: New Grub Street
Cross-References
References
Guatemala
Guatemala City and the Colonial Past in the Historical Novels of José Milla
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
The Urban Center in Colonial Guatemala
Constructing the Nation Upon a Dead City
Conclusion
References
H
H. G. Wells´s London
Definition
References
Hanoi
Hanoi in Literature and Cinema
Synonyms
Hanoi: An Outline of the City´s History Through Its Names
Hanoi as a Literary Center
Hanoi as Counterpoint Narratives
References
Further Reading
Haussmann
Haussmann Iron
Haussmann, Georges Eugène
The Second Empire
The Boulevards: The Right Bank
The Boulevards: The Left Bank
Benjamin on Haussmann
References
Hedayat and Isfahan
Definition
Introduction
Hedayat Tours Isfahan
Cross-References
References
Hedayat, Sadegh
Definition
Introduction
Tehran
Rab´eh Literary Circle
Hedayat and World Literature
Hedayat and the City
Hedayat: An Escapist or a Flâneur?
A Few Remarks on The Blind Owl
Cross-References
Acknowledgment
References
Further Reading
Hedayat, The Blind Owl and the City
Introduction
Summary of the Novella
Reading the Novella
Alienation and Nostalgia
Acknowledgment
Works Cited
Henry James´s Boston
Definition
Introduction: Henry James in Boston
Urban publicity in ``A New England Winter´´ and The Bostonians
Acknowledgment
References
Here and There: The Pillars and Sounds of Carpentier´s Havana
Imagining Havana as the ``Lettered City´´
Anachronism
Politics of Music
Pillars
The Streets of Havana
Bibliography
Hessel: Walking in Berlin
Synonyms
Definition
Franz Hessel and Walter Benjamin
The New Berlin
Walking in Berlin
Afterword
Cross-References
References
Further Reading
Historia de un pepe
Historical novel
Hjalmar Söderberg´s Stockholm: The Precinematic Flâneur in Förvillelser [Diversions]
The Flâneur
The Precinematic and Cinematic
Bibliography
Homosexuality
Hong Kong
Hotels in Literature
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Transatlantic and Cosmopolitan Hotel-Worlds
Hotels and Gender Politics
Colonial Hotels: The Case of Shepheard´s Hotel in Cairo
Conclusion
Cross-References
Acknowledgment
References
Further Reading
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Huysmans and Fin de Siècle Paris
Introduction
Huysmans in Paris
Parisian Sketches
Parisian Landscapes
Everyday Paris
Decadent Paris
Spiritual Paris
Cross-References
Bibliography
I
I. A. Richards
Imaginary Cities: Giorgio de Chirico and Hebdomeros
Biography
De Chirico´s Paintings
Nietzsche, the City and the Enigmatic
Nietzsche in Turin
Hebdomeros
Bibliography and Further Reading
Imagination
Imagined and Concrete Be´er-Sheva
Immigration
Imperialism
Impressionism
Indian Subcontinent Cities in Colonialism and Postcolonialism
Synonyms
Portuguese Colonization
Mughal Empire
East India Company
Bengali Renaissance
British Empire
Rudyard Kipling
E.M. Forster
George Orwell and Burma
Satyajit Ray
The Postcolonial Novel
Bollywood
Cross-References
Bibliography and Further Reading
Infrastructure
Inner City vs. Outer Township
Intercity and Intracity Railway Travel in the World of Arnold Bennett: A Literary Excursion
Introduction
Arnold Bennett, Literature and Scholarship
Bennett, Transport and Travel
Railway Travel
Travellers Observed
Journeys Involving Railways and Other Modes of Transport
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Invasion Fiction
Investigative Journalism = Social Reporting
Iquitos: The Big Island of the Jungle and Its Literary Representation
Iquitos: City of Legends, Fables, and Great Riches
Iquitos: Slavery Due to the Rubber Trade
Iquitos, Its Myths, Its Imaginary Beings, and the Importance of Oral Tradition
Bibliography
Films
Iris Murdoch: Dear London, Divided Dublin
References
Iron
Isaak Babel´s ``Odessa Tales´´
Introduction
Conclusion
References
Isabella Whitney
Isabella Whitney and London
Synonyms
Definition
Isabella Whitney´s Printed Verse Miscellanies
Whitney´s Appropriation of London
Pen and Inkpot Instead of Needle and Thread
References
Further Reading
Istanbul in the Turkish Novel: Ambiguity and Resistance
Introduction
Istanbul in Ottoman and Turkish Literature: A Brief Overview
The Beginnings
Istanbul as a Third-World City and a Neglected Archive of Istanbul Cosmopolitanism
Istanbul: A Global City
``Cool Istanbul´´ in the 2000s
Things Written in Water: Ambiguity and Resistance in Elif Shafak´s Istanbul
A Suicidal Take on the ``Bridge´´ Metaphor
Cosmopolitanism
Istanbul for Foreigners
Acknowledgment
References
It´s a Real Nowhere Map: Ricardo Piglia´s The Absent City
References
Further Reading
Ivan Vladislavić´s Johannesburg
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Essay and Experiment
Driving vs Walking
Documenting vs Imagining Johannesburg
Cross-Reference
References
J
Jaime Saenz and the urbe of La Paz
Introduction
An Urban Guidebook
Conflict of the City and the Urbe
Permanence and Ephemerality
The Urban Person
Darkness of the Urban Person
References
James Joyce´s Dubliners: Geography ``Taking Substance´´ Under Our Eyes
Visible City
Invisible City
Sentimental City
References
James Joyce´s Ulysses: A Multivocal Dublin
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
The Emergence of Dublin as a Catholic, Nationalist City
``Aeolus´´ and the Multivocal City of Ulysses
``Wandering Rocks´´ and Competing Perspectives on the City
Dublin´s Present and Possible Futures in Ulysses
Competing Futures
Competing Histories
Conclusion: Ulysses and Urban Literary Studies
Bibliography
Jane Jacobs
Japanese Cinematic Music
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Cinematic Japan as Sight and Sound
Musical Ethnoscapes of Cinematic Tokyo
Tokyo as Home and Away: Yasujiro Ozu
References
Japanese Women Writers
Jewish Writing and Jewish Versus Other Ethnicities
Jia Zhangke
Johannesburg
Definition
Introduction
Mining Johannesburg
Jim Comes to Joburg
Bosman´s Johannesburg
Township Modernism: Sophiatown and Soweto
The White Suburbs
Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
Note
Acknowledgment
References
Johannesburg the Edgy City
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
The Edgy City
1910-1960
1950-1994
1990-2002
2002-2020
Cross-References
References
John Dos Passos
John Dos Passos´ Manhattan Transfer (1925): Naturalism, Modernism, and Radical Politics in the Modern American Novel
Synonyms
Introduction
References
John Gay and Trivia
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
``Of Ways There Are Three Sorts´´: Trivia as a Title
Trivia´s Poetic Precursors
Lead, Friendly Light
Through the Streets of London
Influence and Legacy
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
John Gay, Bertolt Brecht, and Urbanized Opera
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
London´s Presence in The Beggar´s Opera
Conjoined Opposites and Floating Signifiers
From Gay to Brecht
Collaboration and Collage
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
John Stow
John Stow and Early Modern London
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Stow´s Life and Work
The Survey´s Layout and Stow´s Perspective
Stow´s Sources
The Survey and Its Features
Stow Versus Shakespeare and Others
Conclusion
Works Cited
Jonathan Swift
Jonson, Ben
José Matos Mar
José Milla
Jules Laforgue and Berlin
Synonyms
Definition
The Biographical Context
Berlin, la cour et la ville
Laforgue and German Art
Laforgue as Flâneur/Rôdeur
Cross-References
References
Julio Cortzar in Paris
Introduction
Cortzar´s Flâneur
Music and the Global City
Cortzar and the Lettered City
Cortzar and the Open City
Cross-References
References
July Revolution
Jungle of Cities
K
Kafka
Kailyard School
Karachi
Setting the Scene
Geopolitics
Women´s Writing
Violence
Karachi History
Aamer Hussein
Land of Shrines
Bina Shah
Modern Karachi
Bibliography
Kawakami Mieko´s Breasts and Eggs
Synonyms
Introduction
Women´s Lives in the City
Conclusion
References
Keats
Khitrov Market
Kiev
Kingston, Jamaica: A Colonial City Portrayed by Novelist John Hearne
Introduction
The Sensory Experience in Hearne´s Novels
The Two Jamaicas
The Downtown Business District and the Waterfront
Literary Transects Illustrate Kingston´s Urban Structure
Kingston After the Cayuna Novels
Conclusion
References
Kipling and E.M. Forster
L
La hija del Adelantado
Lagos and the New Nollywood
Definition
Lagos and the Emergence of Nollywood
The Old and New Nollywood
Lagos in New Nollywood
New Nollywood in Lagos
References
Lane: Alleyway, Side Street, Detour, Back Alley
Lao She
Introduction
Lao She´s Life
Lao She´s Works
Lao she and Beijing
Longxugou
Cha Guan (, Tea House)
Further Reading
Lao She and Beijing
Lao She´s Life
Lao She´s Beijing
Lao She´s Humor
Rickshaw Boy (Camel Xiangzi)
Four Generations Under One Roof (The Yellow Storm)
Teahouse
Lao She´s Death
References
Further Readings
Last Nights of Paris
Synonyms
Definition
Soupault, Breton, and Magnetic Fields
Last Nights in Paris
Further Reading
Latin-American Urban Chroniclers
References
Life and Death of Jack Engle, Walt Whitman
Introduction
References
Lima and Mario Vargas Llosa
Synonyms
Definition
Vargas Llosa´s Zigzagging Journey to the Capital
Lima Is Everything: The Time of the Hero
Lima as Hell and Labyrinth: Conversation in The Cathedral
Upper- and Middle-Class Neighborhoods in The Cubs and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Vargas Llosa Redraws the Map: The Green House and Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
The Storyteller, the Jungle, and the Library
References
Liu Cixin ()
An Engineer and a Novelist
A Problem of Three Bodies or n Bodies?
All Key Characters in Three Body Trilogy Are Urban Elites; So Are Its Readers
Challenges and Debates Faced by Three Body Trilogy and by Liu Cixin
Other Science Fictional Works by Liu Cixin
Bibliography
Selected Works by Liu Cixin´s Published in English to Date
Liverpool Poets, Novelists, and Life-Writers
Poets
Novelists
Life Writers
Bibliography
London
London Early Modern Playhouses
Synonyms
London´s First Outdoor Playhouses
Suburban Playhouses: The Globe and Its Competitors
Citizen Theatres: The Fortune and the Red Bull
Beyond the Walls or Within the ``Liberties´´: Playhouses and Spaces of Excess
The Indoor Playhouses: Blackfriars and St. Pauls
Successive Closures of the Playhouses
Cross-References
Works Cited
Long Take
Los Angeles
Definition
Bibliography
Los Nazarenos
Louis Aragon
Lower East Side
M
Mac Orlan
References
MacDonald: Aberdeen, London, Manchester, Bulika
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Biography
MacDonald´s Scottish Cities
George MacDonald´s London
MacDonald´s Fantastic Cities
Children, the Childlike, and MacDonald´s Redemptive Arc
Reception History
Cross-References
References
Further Reading
Machinery, Mud, and the Metropolis: The Portrayal of Łódz in Władysław Reymont´s The Promised Land
Definition
Władysław Reymont´s Life
The Promised Land
Growth
The Jungle
Machinery
References
Madrid: Urban Space
Maha Khan Phillips, The Curse of Mohenjodaro
Synonyms
Introduction
Meluhha: Rereading Cityness in Terms of Materiality
Conclusion
References
Mahfuz, Najib, and Cairo
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Manchester
Mandelstam and Cities
Introduction
Mandelstam´s Biography
Mandelstam´s Poetry
Mandelstam´s Cities
Voronezh
Bibliography and Further Reading
Manhattan
Map Paintings
Marc Augé and Non-place
Introduction
Conclusion
Cross-References
Further Reading
Mario Vargas Llosa
Marseille
Introduction
Marseille
Benjamin´s Marseilles
Bibliography and Further Reading
Martí, José
Martí and His Dedication to Writing
The Havana Years
Mexico City and Central America
His Brief Stay in Caracas
A Decade and Half in New York
Return to His Native Cuba
Bibliography
Works Cited
Further Reading
Martin Scorsese´s Taxi Driver (1976)
``No Direction Home´´: The Being of a Taxi Driver
``A worried man with a worried mind´´: Seeing with a (Frustrated) Male Gaze
``You should not treat me like a stranger´´: From Talking to Calling
``Death is not the end´´: From (Not) Knowing to Killing
References
Marx
Marxism
Mary Shelley
Mass Observation
Mass-Observation
References
Maupassant: Bel-Ami
Definition
Life
Bel-Ami
``Le Roman´´
References
Further Reading
Max Klinger
Measure for Measure: Shakespeare´s City Cartography
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Romeo and Juliet in Reverse
The Laying of the Scene
Libertinism and the Liberties
Modern Appropriations
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Medieval London as New Troy
Definition
The Origins of the Legend
The Legend
New Troy in the Brut Chronicles
New Troy in Medieval Art
New Troy After the Middle Ages
References
Melodrama
Melville, ``Bartleby the Scrivener´´
Synonyms
References
Memorials
Metropolitan Travel Writing
Cross-References
References
Mexico City and Haussmann
Tenochtitlan to Mexico City
The Nineteenth-Century City
Nineteenth-Century Writers
Napoleon III, Maximilian, and Mexico
References
Mexico City: Queer Slumming
Introduction
Mexico City Slumming
Conclusion
Further Reading
Mexico City: Women, Class, and Urban Spaces in Salvador Novo´s Nueva grandeza mexicana
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Internal and External Influences, Modernization, and Social Change
Latin American Chronicle
Satire, Neo-Baroque, and the Mexican Vanguard
Slumming
Mexican Women in Public Urban Spaces
Feminizing the Mexican National Image
Conclusion
References
MIÀN : Jia Zhangke´s Artistic Encounter with Prada Rong Zhai
Shanghai: Art and Haute Couture
Prada Rong Zhai
MIÀN - Fantasia
Chī Miàn - Noodle Eating
Taste and Memories of Home
Biǎo Miàn - Surface
Tattoo: Jia Zhangke and Photography
Huì Miàn - Meeting
Retrieving Collective Memories: I Wish I Knew
Visit (Lai Fang)
References
Middleton, Thomas
Mina Loy
Minsk or Mensk
Introduction
The Individual and Collective Dilemmas of a Peripheral Center
The Sun City on the Soviet Frontier
Minsk and Mensk. Post-Soviet (re-)Imaginations between Mourning, Hopes, Fears, and Dreams
References
Further Readings
Mobility
Moderism and Modernity and Postmodernism
Modern Rome: Mapping the City of Decline
Synonyms
Main Text
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Modernist Paris
Definition
Introduction
Rewriting Paris
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Mohsin Hamid´s Twin Cities: New York and Lahore
Definition
Hamid´s Life
The Twin Cities
Conclusions
Bibliography
Montage
Montreal
Moosbrugger and The Man Without Qualities
Synonyms
A Modernist Problem
A Criminal of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Crime and the City
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Moscow
Moscow, St Petersburg, and Constructivism
Synonyms
Introduction
Literary Formalism
Cubo-Futurism
Constructivism
Malevich - Futurist and Constructivist
Russian Theatre
Meyerhold
Mayakovsky
Film and Montage
Bibliography and Further Reading
Moscow: Walter Benjamin´s Moscow Diary
The Moscow Journey: The Biography
Moscow and Benjamin
``Moscow´´
Other Writings on Moscow
Cross-References
Bibliography and Further Reading
Mud
Music
N
Nadine Gordimer´s Johannesburg
Definition
Introduction
``Johannesburg has no genre of its own´´: Milieu and Meaning in A World of Strangers and The Late Bourgeois World
Burger´s Daughter: From Johannesburg to the World and Back
``Something Out There´´: Johannesburg in the Interregnum
Departing the Edgy City: Johannesburg in the Rearview Mirror
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Nadja: André Breton
Definition
Breton and Surrealism
Nadja: Photographs
Nadja: Second Part
Epilogue
Summary
Cross-References
Bibliography and Further Reading
Names
Nantonaku, kurisutaru [Somewhat, Crystal] by Tanaka Yasuo
References
Naples
Benjamin and Capri
Naples
City of Poverty
The Porous City
Cross-References
Bibliography and Further Reading
Narrating the City in Film Noir
Synonyms
Introduction
External Focalization
Opening Scenes
The Maltese Falcon, San Francisco
Double Indemnity, Los Angeles
The Naked City, New York
Hide and Seek
Stray Dog and Elevator to the Gallows, Tokyo and Paris
The Third Man and Odd Man Out, Vienna and Belfast
Conclusion
Works Cited
Naturalism
Négritude
Neoliberal Urbanism: The Global City and the Shantytown
Neoliberal Globalization and Urbanism
The Developing World Slum Novel
The Global Cities Novel
Conclusion
References
Neruda, Pablo
Introduction
The Solipsistic Journey and the Avant-Garde Revolution
Spain and the Resistance
The Inca City in Ruins: ``Alturas de Macchu Picchu´´ and Neruda´s Anagnorisis
Cross-References
References
Further Reading
Nesbit: Magic Cities or ``Prison[s] for Children´´
Definition
Introduction
Biography and Bibliography
The Treasure-Seekers
The Psammead Trilogy and the City as Prison
Harding´s Luck, The Enchanted Castle, and Magic, Past and Present
Fabian Socialism and London Othering
Ideal Cities: The Magic City and Wings and the Child
Cross-References
References
New York
New York and How the Other Half Lives (Jacob A. Riis)
Synonyms
Definition
Biography
New York
The Lower East Side
The Five Points
How the Other Half Lives
Women in the Lower East Side
The Modern City
Bibliography and Further Reading
New York City
New York City and the Traumatic Imagination
Definition
Traumatic Memories and the Traumatic Imagination
9/11
Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)
New York: The Sixth Borough, Central Park, and the Empire State Building
From Post-Expressionistic Painting to Magical Realist Writing
Cross-References
References
Recommended Theoretical Sources (in Alphabetical Order)
New York City in Paul Auster´s The New York Trilogy
Introduction
Postmodern Criticism of the Trilogy
Some Critical Approaches to New York City in the Trilogy
A New Approach to the City in Auster´s Trilogy
The Special Case of City of Glass, a Novel About New York City
Works Cited
The Newgate Novel: Jack Sheppard
Newgate
The Newgate Novel
W.H. Ainsworth
Jack Sheppard
Cross-References
Bibliography
Newspapers
Ngugĩ wa Thiong´o and Other Kenyan Writers
Bibliography
Nonsense
Nonsense Literature
Nonsensified Municipalities: Urbanization in Edward Lear´s Nonsense
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Edward Lear´s Nonsensifed Municipalities
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Notre-Dame de Paris
References
O
Odessa in Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Yiddish Literature
Definition
Introduction
The Russian Narrative
The Hebrew and Yiddish Narrative
The Russian-Jewish Narrative
The Soviet Period and the ``Odessa School´´
The Odessa Myth
Odessa´s Ukrainian Connection
Post-Soviet Postmemory
Conclusion
Works Cited
Office Work
Osaka in Literature
Oslo/Kristiania/Christiania: Ibsen, Hamsun, and the Modern Urban Breakthrough
What´s in a Name?
Ibsen and Christiania: Love´s Comedy
From Christiania to Kristiania: Bourgeois and Bohemian
Ibsen and Kristiania: Hedda Gabler
Hamsun and Kristiania: Hunger
Ibsen, Hamsun, and Oslo
References
Oulipo
P
Paris
Early Paris
Medieval Paris
Rabelais
Henri IV
The City in the Seventeenth Century
Paris and the Court
Eighteenth-Century Paris
The Revolution
Nineteenth-Century Paris
La Belle Époque
Paris and Prostitution
Paris as World Capital
Modern Paris
Cross-References
References
Paris Peasant: Louis Aragon
Synonyms
Definition
Aragon
Paris Peasant
A Feeling for Nature at the Buttes-Chaumont
The Peasant´s Dream
Bibliography and Further Reading
``Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century´´ (Benjamin)
Synonyms
The Epigraph
Fourier, or the Arcades
Daguerre, or the Panoramas
Grandville, or the World Exhibitions
Louis-Philippe, or the Interior
Baudelaire, or the Streets of Paris
Haussmann, or the Barricades
References
Past, Present, and Place: Setting in Cline´s Ready Player One
The Stacks, Oklahoma, 2045
Middletown, Ohio, 1980
The Potentialities of the OASIS
The Limitations of the OASIS
Acknowledgment
Bibliography
Paul Verlaine and the Parisian Bohème
Synonyms
Definition
Life and Works
Aspects of Paris: Two Poems of Verlaine
References
Percy Shelley
Perec, Georges
Synonyms
Definition
Cross-References
References
Further Reading
Performance, Performativity, Spectacle: Arthur Schnitzler, Der junge Medardus
References
Peripheries
Peru
Peshawar: Past and Present
In Ancient Times
Peshawar
Bibliography
Pessoa´s Lisbon: Afterlives in Saramago and Tabucchi
Synonyms
Campos´s Lisbon
Soares´s Lisbon
Literary Aftermath
Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Tabucchi: Requiem
References
Further Reading
Petersburg
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria and Allegory
Cross-References
References
Photography
Physiognomy
Synonyms
History of the Term
The Double Faces of Physiognomies
Caricature
Benjamin on Physiognomies
Cross-References
References
Pierce Egan
Pierce Egan: Life in London (1821)
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Piers Plowman
Further Readings
Piglia and Buenos Aires
Piglia: Author and Critic
Piglia´s Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires at the Global Periphery
Civilization and Barbarism
References
Pixação in São Paulo: Subverting the Lettered City
References
Platonov: Soviet Writing and Happy Moscow
Biography
Socialist Realism
Fedorov
The Foundation Pit
Soul - and Central Asia
Happy Moscow
Conclusion
Bibliography and Further reading
Poe, Edgar Allan
Synonyms
The Brief Unhappy Life of Edgar Poe
Poe and the City
True Crime
Further Reading
Police
Portugal
Poverty
Premchand: Rangbhoomi
Biography
Gandhi and Cities
Rangbhoomi
Premchand and Postmodernism
Cross-References
Bibliography and Further Reading
Princess Casamassima, The (James)
References
Print
Prisons
Prostitution
Prussia
Q
Queen West
Queer Space
Queer Time
Queer Visibility
R
Ragpickers
Raymond Williams: The Country and the City
Synonyms
Definition
Biography
Theory
Critical Analysis
References
Realism, Realist Socialist Literature
Recife and Clarice Lispector
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Recife: Three Poets of Memory
Definition
References
Restoration Comedy and London
Introduction
Restoration London
Playhouses and London
Parks and Comedy
Shopping Scenes
London and Theater People
Hostile Reactions
Sequestered Living
Restoration Comedy and Contemporary London
References
Revolution
Richard Flanagan
Richard Wright and Chicago
Synonyms
The John Reed Club
The Chicago School of Sociology
The Communist Party of the United States
``Blueprint for Negro Writing´´
The Black Chicago Renaissance
Lawd Today; Uncle Tom´s Children; Native Son
Richard Wright´s Chicago Legacy
References
Riga
Cross-References
Further Reading
Rimbaud
Robert Musil: The Man Without Qualities
Synonyms
Introduction
Essayism and the Novel
The Abstract City
End of an Empire
Vienna: Capital of the Twentieth Century?
Cross-References
References
Rome
Rome and the Shelleys
Synonyms
Bibliography
Rose Macaulay´s London
Bibliography
Ruins
Ruskin and London
Introduction
Ruskin in London
The Early Ruskin: Romanticism
The Later Ruskin: The War on Decadence
The Significance of Ruskin´s London
References
Further Reading
Ruskin and Venice
From Modern Painters to The Stones of Venice
From Romantic Venice to Decadent Venice
Reading The Stones of Venice and ``The Nature of Gothic´´
The Afterlives of The Stones of Venice
Cross-References
Works Cited
Russian Cities: A Summary History
Synonyms
Introduction
Geography
Moscow
St Petersburg
Intentional and Unintentional Cities
Moscow and St Petersburg
The Caucasus
Eastern and Siberian Cities
Bibliography and Further Reading
S
Salman Rushdie
Salvador Novo and Mexico City
Novo´s Early Years
``El Joven´´ and Novo in the 1920s
``Nueva grandeza mexicana´´
The 1968 and the Final Years
Bibliography
Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners
Introduction
Race, Space, and Sexuality
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Samuel Johnson
Sanditon
Introduction
Places in Austen´s Life and Works
Seaside Settings in Mansfield Park and Persuasion
Seaside Settings and Contemporary Realities
Sanditon as a Modern Novel
Mr. Parker´s Female ``Colleague in Speculation´´
The Questionable Success of Sanditon
Possible Other Developments of the Plotline
Self-Proclaimed Invalids in Sanditon
Prototypes of Sanditon
References
Santa: A Novel by Federico Gamboa
Synonyms
References
Santo Domingo in Rita Indiana Hernndez´ La estrategia de Chochueca
Further Reading
Saul Bellow and Chicago
Introduction
Chicago in Bellow´s Letters
Dangling Man, Herzog, Humboldt´s Gift, and The Actual
The Adventures of Augie March
Growing up in Chicago: Bellow´s Jewish Immigrant Experience and his Fiction
Conclusion: ``Chicago: The City That Was, the City That Is´´
Cross-References
References
Scottish
Sewers: Urban Reality and Urban Imagination
Overground, Underground, and In Between
The Hygienic Obsession
The Repulsive Attraction
The Disenchanted Sewer
References
Shakespeare
Shakespeare and The City
Coriolanus: The Eternal City as Every City
Plebeians: Voices of the City
Satiety and the City: Famine and Protest
Urban Cannibalism
The Roman Forum: Marketplace and Space of Death
Town Versus City: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Shakespeare and the City
Cross-References
Works Cited
Shanghai
Shanghai: A City with No Heroes
History
Major Novels and Literary Development, 1890-1949
Shanghai Stories from the 1950s to the 2000s
Summary: The Significance of the Quotidian
References
Sherlock Holmes and London
Introduction
The Stories
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Simmel and The Metropolis and Mental Life
Simmel´s Life
Simmel´s Writings
Modernity
Dilthey
The Metropolis and Mental Life
Benjamin and Simmel
References
Further Reading
Singapore
Geo-cultural Contours of Anglophone Writing
Anglophone Writing in the Lion City
The Little Red Dot
Heartland and Hinterland
Tropical Gothic in the Garden City
Speculations and Migrations
References
Further Reading
Sipho Sepamla´s Johannesburg
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Poetry
Fiction
Cross-References
References
Slums and Urbanization of Poverty in Postcolonial India
Introduction
Urban India and Slums
Urban Planning and Creative Destruction
Planet of Slums: Necropolitics
Conclusion
References
Space
Stalingrad
Stanley Kubrick´s Cities
Bibliography
Still Life (2006)
Stockholm, Stora Nygatan, and the City Writing of August Strindberg
References
Further Reading
Street Ballads
(Sub)urban Imaginaries
Suburbs in Wilkie Collins´s Fiction
Introduction
Wilkie Collins´s Life
Introductory: Collins, London, and the Suburban Expansion
Suburban Wasteland: Landscapes of Ugliness, Disarray, and Desolation
Suburban Privacies
Suburban Contamination
References
Further Reading
Surrealism
Survey of London
Sydney
Sydney, Interwar Modernity, and Modernism
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Modern City, Modernist Fiction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Sydney: The Unknown City
Synonyms
Definition
Australian Literature - An Overview
Sydney - History
Author
The Unknown Terrorist
Conclusion
References
T
T.S. Eliot: Cities and the City
Cross-References
References
Taipei
Taipei and the Urban Mangrove in Wu Ming-yi´s Fiction
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Taipei: History and Migrant Species
Wu Ming-yi´s City Butterflies
Conclusion: The Urban Mangrove and the Right to the City
Cross-References
References
Taiwan
Tango
Temperance
Tenements
Thackeray
Thăng Long
The Detective Novel
Thomas Anstey Guthrie (``F. Anstey´´) (1856-1934)
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Family, Education, and Literary Career
Acquaintance with London Life
London: City of Antithesis
East Meets West
Mapping the Emotions of London
Kensington: The Mapping and the Memories
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Thomas Hood
Tokyo
Tokyo Nostalgia in Autobiographical Writings in Contemporary Japan
Synonyms
Introduction: Tokyo in Literature
Nostalgia and Autobiographical Writing About Tokyo
Kobayashi Nobuhiko´s Tokyo Tetralogy
Conclusion
References
Tolstoy
Toronto
Translating the Poetry of the Urban
Writing About the City
Pressures and Resistances in Regular Forms: Charles Baudelaire and Alfred Wolfenstein
Hallucination and Clear-Sightedness in Free-Verse Forms: Gottfried Benn and Jacques Roubaud
The Prose of Encounter, of Sensory Assault, and of Psychogeography: Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Jules Laforgue, and Jacques ...
Conclusion
References
Transnationalism
Tsai Ming-liang´s Cinematic Cities: The River (1997) and Stray Dogs (2013)
Synonyms
Introduction
The River (1997)
Stray Dogs (2013)
Threefold Meanings of the Title
The Mural and the Ruin
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Tsuyu no atosaki [During the Rain] by Nagai Kafu
References
U
Underground Man
Urbanity and Court Case Fiction
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Further Reading
Urbanized Opera
V
Venice and Renaissance Plays
Introduction
Venice and Jews
The Myth of Venice
Shakespeare and Jonson - Plays
Further Reading
Victorian Investigative ``Slumming´´
Synonyms
Cross-References
References
Vienna
Vietnamese Literature
Villas Miseria in Buenos Aires
Synonyms
Introduction
Poverty and Culture
Conclusion
References
Villon and Paris
References
W
Walking in the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin
Synonyms
Introduction
The Modern Artist
The Aesthetics of the Crowd
Night Walking
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Walking in the Crowd: Undoing Male Sexuality
Introduction
On Cities, and Women
Walking, and the Drive
Conclusion
Cross-references
References
Walking the City: A Chinese Perspective
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Walking and Distraction
Walking: Genoa, Tokyo, London, and Paris
Walking the Alleyway
Slow Walking
Conclusion: An Amateur Approach
Cross-References
References
Walking the Everyday in Xi Xi´s Literary Works
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Walking in the Communal Lane
The Magic Mirror of Department Stores and Supermarkets
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Wall Street
Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo´s Life
The Spatial Structure of Beijing and Wang Shuo´s Fiction
Half Flame, Half Seawater
Master of Mischief
Not an Iota of Seriousness: A Sequel to Master of Mischief
Riffraff Characters in Hooligan Literature
References
Warsaw
Washington Irving: A History of New York
Irving´s Life
New York
The History of New York
Irving and the Short Story
References
Further Reading
Weimar Republic
``What Else Is a Woman to Do?´´ Negotiating Urban Spaces in Ann Petry´s The Street
Introduction
Ann Petry and Environmental Determinism
That Girl Is Unusually Attractive and Men Are Weak
An Enormous Bulk of a Woman
The Shapeless Small Dark Woman in the Chair
A Canary and a Large Ornate Cage
Conclusion
References
Wilde and Fin de Siècle London
Introduction
Wilde in the City
Sex and the City
Wilde´s West End
London´s Fin de Siècle Social Life
Dandies and Flâneurs
Wilde´s East End
Wilde´s Aesthetics of Space
Cross-References
References
Willa Cather and the Metropolis
Synonyms
Definition
The Urban Cather
Pittsburgh´s Class Divisions
Paul´s Case
``Money Was Everything´´: Paul in New York City
Cather´s New York
References
Further Reading
Women in the City: Berlin (1900-1933)
Introduction
Women as Political Activists in Imperial Berlin
The End of Empire and Berlin as the ``City of Women´´
Progress and Women as Politicians in the Weimar Republic
Women as Representations of the City in Expressionism
Berlin´s Sex Workers in Expressionist Literature
``Madonna vs. Whore´´ and Destructive Excess in the City
``Art as Weapon´´ in the Metropolis
Creative Women in Berlin
Writing the Metropolis and Woman´s Place in the City: Women Writers in Berlin
Jewish Women and the Public Sphere
Anti-Semitism and the End of Productive Urban Creativity
Nazism, Exile, and Death
References
Further Reading
Woody Allen´s Manhattan
Synonyms
Introduction
Manhattan
References
Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway
Introduction
Dislocation and Connections of Clarissa Dalloway
The Work of Walking
Conclusion
Cross-references
References
The Word London in Dickens
Synonyms
`London´ in Great Expectations, Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend
Related ``London´´ Words
References
Wordsworth, The Prelude Book 7 (``Residence in London´´)
Bibliography
Y
Youssef Chahine´s Cinematic Alexandria
Synonyms
Definition
Introduction
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Yu Miri´s Tokyo Ueno Station: ``I Write for the People Who Don´t Belong Anywhere´´
Synonyms
Introduction
Significance of the Novel´s Title
Significance of the Ueno Park Setting
Links Between the Imperial Family and the Unhoused of Ueno Park
Ueno Park: A Gathering Place in Times of Disaster, Past and Present
Connecting Mori´s Death to the 3/11 Disasters
Conclusion
References
Z
Zagreb
Synonyms
Introduction
The 1870s: Zagreb and the First Croatian Novel
Fin de Siècle: A Deleuzian Zagreb
The 1910s: Zagreb and the First Croatian Detective Novel
The 1930s to the 1960s: Antigonic Socialism
The 1970s and After
Conclusion
Cross-References
References
Zamyatin
Zola to Impressionism: Picturing Paris
Introduction
Observing and Observed
The Window and the Panorama
Representation and Abstraction
Series Paintings
References
Zola, Emile, The Kill
Synonyms
References
