Introduction and Acknowledgements.- Prologue: City-Theory and Writing in Paris and Chicago: Space, Gender, Ethnicity.- PART I. THE CITY IN THEORY.- Introduction.- 1. Modern Urban Theory and the Study of Literature; Jason Finch.- 2. Theorists of the Postmodern, Global, and Digital City; J. A. Smith.- 3. Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project; Ben Moore.- 4. ‘How did the Everyday Manage to become so Interesting?’; Alfie Bown.- PART II. EUROPEAN CITIES.- Introduction.- 5. Dublin; Daniel Bristow.- 6. Medieval and Early Modern Cities: London, Paris, Florence, and Amsterdam; Jeremy Tambling.- 7. Modern London: 1820-2020; Jason Finch.- 8. Balzac: A Socio-Material Archaeology of Paris; Jonathan White.- 9. Berlin: Flesh and Stone, Space and Time; Ulrike Zitzlsperger.- 10. Petersburg on the Threshold; Paul Fung.- 11. St. Petersburg and Moscow in Twentieth-century Russian Literature; Isobel Palmer.- 12. Spain’sLiterature of the City; Aitor Bikandi-Meijas and Paul Vita.- 13. Lisbon: What the Tourist Should Read; Daniel Bristow.- 14. Vienna; Jeremy Tambling.- 15. Venice: Impossible City; David Spurr.- PART III. NORTH AMERICAN CITIES.- Introduction.- 16. Merging Naturalism and the Unreal: An Approach to America’s Literary Cities; Markku Salmela.- 17. 'I would go to Toronto': The City in Contemporary Writing; Tom Ue.- 18. New York Fiction; Markku Salmela and Lieven Ameel.- PART IV: LATIN AMERICAN CITIES.- Introduction.- 19. The Repeating City: Urban Space in Hispanic Caribbean Literature; Elena Valdez.- 20. Mexico City; David William Foster.- 21. Cities, Territories, and Conflict: Narrative and the Colombian City in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; Andrés Mesa.- 22. Peru: Words Under the Fog; Fernando Rivera.- 23. Brasília’s Literature; Sophia Beal.- 24. Rio’s Favelas: Mapping the Periphery; Leila Lehnen.- 25. The Case of Rio de Janeiro: Exploring Geographies of Resistance and Domination; Kátia da Costa Bezerra.- 26. São Paulo in Transit; Leila Lehnen.- 27. Santiago, Chile from the Mapocho River: Landscape, Border, and Waste; Claudia Darrigrandi Navarro.- 28. Buenos Aires; David William Foster.- PART V. AFRICAN CITIES.- Introduction.- 29. An Overview of African Cities and Writing; Alastair Niven.- 30. Cairo and Alexandria; Ahmed Elbeshlawy.- 31. Lagos in Nigerian Literature; Louis James.- 32. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Cowboys, Cosmonauts and Capitalism; Kaspar Loftin.- 33. What is the City in Africa?; Patrick Williams.- 34. South African Cities; Marita Wenzel.- PART VI. ASIAN CITIES.- Introduction.- 35. Istanbul; Valerie Kennedy.- 36. Beirut; Ghenwa Hayek.- 37. India and Its Cities Through the Eyes of Its Writers; Alastair Niven.- 38. Out of Place in Delhi: Some Vignettes of Loss;Stuti Khanna.- 39. Fictional and Cinematic Representations of the Journey of Bombay to Mumbai; Nilufer E. Bharucha.- 40. City and Country in Chinese Fiction: An Historical Survey; Leo Ou-fan Lee.- 41. A Cinematic Guide to Asian Cities: Taipei, Seoul, and the Cinema of Destruction; Louis Lo.- 42. A Megalopolis in Transit: Waterways as the Witness of Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo; Ikuho Amano.- 43. Australasian City Writing; Michael Hollington.- PART VII: URBAN THEMES.- Introduction and Epilogue.- 44. Realism and its revelations: City Perspectives in London and Paris; Sara Thornton.- 45. Conceptualising the Modernist City; Iain Bailey.- 46. Travel Writing and the City; Paul Smethurst.- 47. The Urban Connections of Crime Fiction; Stephen Knight.- 48. Cities Utopian, Dystopian and Apocalyptic; Lieven Ameel.- Further Reading.-
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