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FURTHER READING A complete reading list on literature and the city is obviously impossible, but I list books here according to parts: these supplement the bibliographies given at the end of each chapter. Some material on cities and literature is also included— primary and secondary texts—which this Handbook has not been able to cover. For further lists and guidance, readers may consult the Cambridge Companions to: Paris (ed. Anna-Louis Milne 2013), The Harlem Renaissance (George Hutchinson 2007), New York (Cyrus R.P. Patell 2010), Los Angeles (Kevin R. McNamara 2010), London (Lawrence Manley 2011), Australian Literature (Elizabeth Webby 2006), Modern Indian Culture (Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana 2012), and The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature ed. Kevin R. McNamara (2014) and sundry others. These volumes are useful, though less critical than those here, more like brochures than guides, but certainly a place to start. Volumes of special interest are noted below. Another place to start is: Bridge, Gary, and Sophie Watson. 2011. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell. (At 768 pp, this is an impressive collection of 65 new essays, with some distinguished contributors, but there seems little principle of selection and a lack of empirical detail or even of coverage (e.g. no entry on Moscow, or St Petersburg, nor an entry on Japan, or Tokyo).) PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK TO LITERATURE AND THE CITY AND THE CITY IN THEORY Ahrens, Jörn, and Arno Meteling (eds.). 2010. Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence. New York: Continuum. Aragon, Louis. 1981. Paris Peasant. Trans. Simon Watson Taylor. London: Cape. © The Author(s) 2016 801 J. Tambling (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City, DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2 802 FURTHER READING Best, Steven, and Douglas Kellner, 1991. Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. New York: The Guilford Press. Careri, Francesco. 2002. Walking as an Aesthetic Practice. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili. Davis, Mike. 2006. Planet of Slums. London: Verso. Dennis, Richard, 2008. Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Frisby, David. 1986. Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin. Cambridge: Polity Press. ———. 2001. Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations. Cambridge: Polity. Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. London: Verso. Jaye, Michael C., and Ann Chalmers Watts (eds.). 1981. Literature and the Urban Experience. Newark: Rutgers University Press. Nochimson Martha P. (ed.). World on Film. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Prakash, Gyan. (ed.). 2010. Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Quayson, Ato. (ed.). 2016. The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rossi, Aldo. 1984. The Architecture of the City [1966]. Cambridge: MIT Press. Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. 1986. Disenchanted Night: The Industrialisation of Light in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sennett, Richard. 1994. Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. New York and London: Norton. Varma, Rashmi. 2012. The Postcolonial City and its Subjects. London: Routledge. PART II: EUROPEAN CITIES Ameel, Lieven. 2014. Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Urban Experiences in Finnish Prose Fiction 1890–1940. Helsinki: SKS. Atget, Eugène. 2001. Atget’s Paris. Edited by Hans Christian Adam. Cologne: Taschen. Borg, Alexandra 2011. En Vildmark av Sten. Stockholm i Litteraturen 1897–1916. Stockholm: Stockholmia Förlag. Burton, Richard D.E. 2009. The Flâneur and His City. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Clar, Glenn, Judith Owes, and Greg T. Smith. 2010. City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City. Montreal: McGill University Press. Döblin, Alfred. 1991. Journey to Poland. Trans. Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Paragon House. Dyos, H.J., and Michael Woolf. 1973. The Victorian City: Images and Realities. 2 vols. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Gee, Malcolm, Tim Kirk, and Jill Seward (eds.). 1999. The City in Central Europe: Culture and Society from 1800 to the Present. Aldershot: Ashgate. Hamsun, Knut. 2008. Hunger. Intro. by Paul Auster. Trans. from the Norwegian and with an afterword by Robert Bly. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Harvey, David. 2003. Paris, Capital of Modernity. London: Routledge. Hollingshead, John. 1986. Ragged London in 1861. Edited by Anthony S.Wohl. London: Everyman. Houlbrook, Matt. 2005. Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis 1918–1957. Chicago: Chicago University Press. FURTHER READING 803 Klok, Janke, 2011. Det norske litterære Feminapolis 1880–1980—Skram, Undset, Sandel og Haslunds byromaner—mot en ny modernistisk genre. Groningen: Barkhuis. Komech, Alexei. 1991. Old Russian Cities. London: Lawrence King. Madsen, Peter. 2001. Imagined Urbanity. Novelistic Representations of Copenhagen. In The Urban Lifeworld. Formation, Perception, Representation, ed. Peter Madsen and Richard Plunz, 293–313. London: Routledge. Morris, Jan. 1995. The World of Venice. New York: Harcourt Brace. Norwich, John Julius. 1989. A History of Venice. New York: Vintage. Pattison, George. 1999. Poor Paris! Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Spectacular City. Berlin: W. de Gruyter. Pedersen, Arne Toftegaard. 2007: Urbana odysseer. Helsingfors, staden och 1910-talets finlandssvenska prosa. Helsinki: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. Prus, Bolesław. 1996. The Doll. Trans. David Welsh. London: Central European University Press. Reader, Keith. 2011. The Place de la Bastille. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. Rayfield, Donald. 2010. The Literature of Georgia: A History. London; Garnett Press. Sandhu, Sukhdev. 2004. London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City. London: HarperCollins. Scappetone, Jennifer. 2014. Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice. New York: Columbia University Press. Schlögel, Karl. 2005. Moscow. Trans. Helen Atkins. London: Reaktion. Schmidt, Albert J. 1989. The Architecture and Planning of Classical Moscow. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. Selboe, Tone. 2015. ‘Hungry and Alone: The Topography of Everyday Life in Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg’.InLiterature and the Peripheral City, ed. Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch and Markku Salmela, 131–148. London: Palgrave. Spurr, David. 2012. Architecture and Modern Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Stoppani, Teresa. 2011. Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City. London: Routledge. Strindberg, August. 1967. The Red Room: Scenes of Artistic and Literary Life. Trans. Elizabeth Sprigge. London: Dent Dutton. Sutcliffe, Anthony. 1970. The Autumn of Central Paris: The Defeat of Town Planning 1850–1970. London: Edward Arnold. Tambling, Jeremy (ed.). 2012. Dickens and the City. Aldershot: Ashgate. Tanner, Tony. 1992. Venice Desired. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Tellkamp, Uwe. 2014. The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country. Trans. Michael Mitchell. London: Penguin. Weeks, Theodore R. 2004. ‘A City of Three Nations: Fine de Siècle Warsaw’. Polish Review 49: 747–766. Westerstahl Stenport, Anna. 2002. ‘Imagining a New Stockholm: Strindberg’s Gamla Stockholm and the Construction of Metropolitan Space’. Scandinavian Studies 74: 483–504. PART III: NORTH AMERICAN CITIES Atwood, Margaret, 2004. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd. 804 FURTHER READING Campbell, James. 1999. This Is the Beat Generation: New York-San Francisco-Paris. London: Secker and Warburg. Caulfield, Carlota, and Darien J. Davis (eds.). 2007. A Companion to US Latino Literatures. Woodbridge: Tamesis. Davidson, Michael. 1989. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Davis, Mike. 1998. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Picador. ———. 2002. Dead Cities and Other Tales. New York: The New Press. D’Eramo, Marco. 2003. The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago, a History of Our Future. London: Verso. Fiamengo, Janice. 2004. ‘Regionalism and Urbanism’.InThe Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, ed. Eva-Maria Kröller, 241–262. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Frye, Northrop. 1995. The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination. Concord: House of Anasi Press Limited. Gray, Richard. 2011. After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11. Wiley- Blackwell. Hurt, James. 1992. Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln, and Chicago. 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    Südosteuropa 58 (2010), H. 3, S. 363-388 CHALLENGES OF EUROPEANIZATION GERALD KNAUS / EKREM EDDY GüZELDERE Generals, Christians and Turkey’s European Revolution Abstract. This paper discusses the process of political change in Turkey since 1999. After a first phase of numerous EU-inspired reforms, this process after 2004 has shifted to a domestic debate over the meaning of these reforms. Understanding how this process unfolds not only is crucial to understanding Turkey, but also to bettergrasping the dynamics of Europeanization. The article looks at two issues in particular that illustrate Turkey’s Europeanization efforts: the position of non-Muslim minorities and the position of the Turkish military. In both fields, reforms have been carried out between 2001 and 2004 followed by signs of serious tensions: a wave of attacks against Turkey’s Christians, culminating in a series of assassinations in 2006 and 2007; and an effort by an important fraction of the military hierarchy to reverse the Turkish armed forces’ loss of political influence. Europeanization in Turkey clearly has become a domestic struggle. Gerald Knaus is the founding Chairman of the European Stability Initiative and Associate Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy / Harvard Kennedy School. Ekrem Eddy Güzeldere is a political scientist who has worked as an analyst in the Istanbul office of the European Stability Initiative since 2007. After the Helsinki Moment Europeanization has a long history in Turkey and deep roots in the history of the 19th century, but it has meant very different things at different periods. The dramatic power struggles between various elites that are currently shaking Turkish politics are also shaped by different understandings of what a “Euro- pean Turkey” is supposed to look like and of the importance of democracy in this context.