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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere; the affective experience of city life; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural, and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; cities shaped by colonialism and postcolonialism; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural, and linguistic outsiders. Kevin R. McNamara is Professor of Literature at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. He is the author of Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities (1996) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles (2010). McNamara has published more than twenty articles primarily on cities and urban culture in such journals as Arizona Quarterly, Canadian Review of American Studies, College Literature, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, Interactions , the Journal of Urban History , and Prospects . His work has also been published in the Encyclopedia of American Studies (“The Idea of the City”), A Concise Companion to American Studies (“Regionalism”), and collections edited in the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Turkey. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE CITY IN LITERATURE © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE CITY IN LITERATURE EDITED BY KEVIN R. McNAMARA University of Houston–Clear Lake © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York , NY 10013-2473, USA Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107609150 © Cambridge University Press 2014 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2014 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature / edited by Kevin R. McNamara. pages cm. – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-107-02803-6 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-107-60915-0 (paperback) 1. Cities and towns in literature. 2. City and town life in literature. 3. Literature and society. I. McNamara, Kevin R., 1958– PN56.C55C36 2014 809′.93321732–dc23 2014002492 ISBN 978-1-107-02803-6 Hardback ISBN 978-1-107-60915-0 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLS for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information CONTENTS List of Figures page ix Notes on Contributors xi Chronology xv Introduction 1 Kevin R. McNamara 1 Celestial Cities and Rationalist Utopias 17 Antonis Balasopoulos 2 The City in the Literature of Antiquity 31 Susan Stephens 3 The Medieval and Early Modern City in Literature 42 Karen Newman 4 The Spectator and the Rise of the Modern Metropole 57 Alison O’Byrne 5 Memory, Desire, Lyric: The Fl â neur 69 Catherine Nesci 6 Social Science and Urban Realist Narrative 85 Stuart Culver 7 The Socioeconomic Outsider: Labor and the Poor 99 Bart Keunen and Luc De Droogh 8 The Urban Nightspace 114 James R. Giles vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information Contents 9 Masses, Forces, and the Urban Sublime 126 Christophe Den Tandt 10 Fragment and Form in the City of Modernism 138 Arnold Weinstein 11 Cities of the Avant-Garde 153 Malcolm Miles 12 Urban Dystopias 163 Rob Latham and Jeff Hicks 13 Postmodern Cities 175 Nick Bentley 14 Colonial Cities 188 Seth Graebner 15 Postcolonial Cities 200 Caroline Herbert 16 The Translated City: Immigrants, Minorities, Diasporans, and Cosmopolitans 216 Azade Seyhan 17 Gay and Lesbian Urbanity 233 Gregory Woods 18 Some Versions of Urban Pastoral 245 Kevin R. McNamara and Timothy Gray Guide to Further Reading 261 Index 273 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information FIGURES 1 Views of Damascus, Ferrara, and Verona, from Nuremberg Chronicle [Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu[m] fi guris et ÿ magi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di ] (1493) page 47 2 Piero della Francesca, Ideal City (ca. 1470) 48 3 Sebastiano Serlio, “Tragic Scene,” from Libro. D’Architettvra (1566) 48 4 Sebastiano Serlio, “Comic Scene,” from Libro. D’Architettvra (1566) 49 5 Claes Janszoon Visscher, “Long View of London” (ca. 1625) 50 6 Stefano della Bella, “Perspective of the Pont Neuf in Paris” (1646) 52 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ANTONIS BALASOPOULOS is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus. He has published extensively on utopias and utopianism, political theory, Marxism, cinema, postcolonial studies, and American literature. His most recent publica- tions have dealt with Giorgio Agamben and the concept of the state since Hegel; Plato, animality, and utopia; and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road . NICK BENTLEY is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University in the UK. His research interests are in post-1945 fi ction and literary and cultural theory. He is author of Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (2007), Contemporary British Fiction (2008), and Martin Amis (2013) and editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (2005). He has published journal articles and book chapters on Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Sam Selvon, Zadie Smith, and the representation of youth in 1950s fi ction. He is currently researching youth subcultures in fi ction and fi lm. STUART CULVER teaches English at the University of Utah. He has published widely on topics in American literature and culture, including studies of Henry James and L. Frank Baum. LUC DE DROOGH is lecturer at University College, Ghent, Belgium. He teaches on social work, social work research and the history of social work, adult education, and community development. He has published several articles on social work (in Dutch) mainly on rights-based social work, the ethics of social work, and the his- tory of social work. He is currently doing research on poor people’s organizations and the citizenship of the poor. CHRISTOPHE DEN TANDT teaches literatures in English and cultural theory at the Universit é Libre de Bruxelles. He is the author of The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism (1998) and of articles on U.S. literature (classic realism, early twentieth-century naturalism), popular culture (music, crime fi ction), and postmodernist theory. He is currently working on an essay about the theoretical groundings of contemporary realism. xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02803-6 - The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature Edited by Kevin R. Mcnamara Frontmatter More information Notes on Contributors JAMES R. GILES is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University, where he taught in the Department of English from 1970 to 2007.