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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Will be the definitive resource for students and researchers working in the area of urban literary studies
  • A truly interdisciplinary topic
  • Will draw on film as well as traditional ‘literature’

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Table of contents (582 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. A

    1. Aberdeen

      Pages 1-1
    2. Absinthe

      Pages 1-1
    3. Acropolis

      Pages 1-1
    4. Adaptation

      Pages 1-1
    5. African Literature

      Pages 12-12
    6. Ahmed Essop’s Johannesburg

      • Loren Kruger
      Pages 12-16
    7. Alexander Pope

      Pages 16-16
    8. Alexandria

      Pages 16-16
    9. Alfred Döblin’s Journey to Poland

      • Gareth Reeves
      Pages 16-19
    10. Algeria

      Pages 19-19
    11. Algerian Cities: Kateb Racine’s Nedjma

      • Jeremy Tambling
      Pages 20-24
    12. Allen Fisher’s Poetry and the City

      • Dafydd John Sinden
      Pages 24-30
    13. Almodóvar and Madrid

      • Jacqueline Sheean
      Pages 30-34
    14. Ambulatory Poetry

      Pages 34-34
    15. American Cities

      Pages 34-34
    16. American Expatriates

      Pages 35-35

About this book

This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

    Jeremy Tambling

About the editor

Jeremy Tambling has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and at the University of Manchester, UK, and is author of over 20 books on literary and cultural theory, many engaged with cities and urban theory. He is currently Professor of English at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw.

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eBook USD 2,599.00
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Hardcover Book USD 549.99
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