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London in contemporary British fiction : the city beyond the city / edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew.

Contributor(s): Hubble, Nick, 1965- [editor.] | Tew, Philip [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Bloomsbury studies in the cityPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018Description: 232 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350057807 (pbk.) :Subject(s): English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism | Literature | Literature | London (England) -- In literatureDDC classification: 823.9'2'0932421 Summary: 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.
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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.

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