Titlebook: Literature and the Peripheral City; Lieven Ameel (Researcher),Jason Finch (Lecturer in Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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“It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” Urban Peripherality and the Narrative Framing of Literary York novel . (1984) — who is trying to come to terms with a strange environment, but also of any reader who is immersed in a literary text for the first time, and who will have to make sense of new surroundings fairly quickly if he or she is not to put the book aside. For the protagonist in ., as f

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The Peripheries of London Slumland in George Gissing and Alexander Baron the areas that immigrants first move to upon arriving in the city with few contacts and little money. But they are also places in which rules of conduct or boundaries of respectability which apply everywhere else can be relaxed. Victorian and post-Victorian London abounded in what could be called “

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A Topography of Refuse: Waste, the Suburb, and Pynchon’s “Low-lands”rship without the experience of congested urban centres appealed to a great many US citizens who, with the economy booming, had access to their own real estate on the outskirts of cities. The image of the post-war suburb was in stark contrast to that of the inner city: the former was mass-produced a

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Hungry and Alone: The Topography of Everyday Life in Knut Hamsun and August Strindbergn emphasis on their renderings of Kristiania and Stockholm respectively. My point of departure is Hamsun’s . (., 1890) and Strindberg’s . (., 1903). Hamsun’s novel was written at the beginning of his career, Strindberg’s towards the end of his. In both texts there are interactions and tensions betwe

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A Forest on the Edge of Helsinki: Spatiality in Henrika Ringbom’s Novel ,ager”), a 1998 novel written by Henrika Ringbom. The novel is notable for the careful way in which it transforms the cityscape of downtown Helsinki into a somewhat deurbanized version of itself, a fact accomplished by removing the main thoroughfare of the city, and replacing it by a river. Ringbom u

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Eduard Vilde and Tallinn’s Dynamic Peripheries, 1858–1903ular city, Tallinn in Estonia, and so began negotiating what would become urban modernity within a specific context. In line with the overall interests of this volume, attention is paid here both to the peripheries or limits of Tallinn, and to the possible status of Tallinn itself as a peripheral ci

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