Overview
- Features contributions examining the work of well-known contemporary British writers as well as that of lesser-studied writers
- Addresses a lacuna in criticism to date - little work has focused on the city/urban environment in contemporary British fictions
- Unpacks the way in which contemporary British fiction's engagement with the city remains inextricable from the specific context of the new millennium
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
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About this book
The essays in this edited collection offer incisive and nuanced analyses of and insights into the state of British cities and urban environments in the twenty-first century. Britain’s experiences with industrialization, colonialism, post-colonialism, global capitalism, and the European Union (EU) have had a marked influence on British ideas about and British literature’s depiction of the city and urban contexts. Recent British fiction focuses in particular on cities as intertwined with globalization and global capitalism (including the proliferation of media) and with issues of immigration and migration. Indeed, decolonization has brought large numbers of people from former colonies to Britain, thus making British cities ever more diverse. Such mixing of peoples in urban areas has led to both racist fears and possibilities of cosmopolitan co-existence.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Magali Cornier Michael is Professor of English at Duquesne University, USA, and has authored Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction (2014), New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison (2006), and Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction (1996), as well as numerous essays on contemporary literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City
Editors: Magali Cornier Michael
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89728-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89727-1Published: 31 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07839-3Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89728-8Published: 18 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 252
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology