London in contemporary British fiction : the city beyond the city /
edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew.
- 232 pages.
- Bloomsbury studies in the city .
- Bloomsbury studies in the city. .
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.
Specialized.
9781350057807 (pbk.) : £28.99
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century English literature--History and criticism.--21st century Literature. Literature.