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The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History explores a variety of geographical and cultural contexts to examine what literary texts, grasped as material objects and reflections on urban materialities, have to offer for urban history.
The contributing writers' approach to literary narratives and materialities in urban history is summarised within the conceptualisation 'materiality in/of literature': the way in which literary narratives at once refer to the material world and actively partake in the material construction of the world. This book takes a geographically multipolar and multidisciplinary approach to discuss cities in the UK, the US, India, South Africa, Finland, and France whilst examining a wide range of textual genres from the novel to cartoons, advertising copy, architecture and urban planning, and archaeological writing. In the process, attention is drawn to narrative complexities embedded within literary fiction and to the dialogue between narratives and historical change.
The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History has three areas of focus: literary fiction as form of urban materiality, literary narratives as social investigations of the material city, and the narrating of silenced material lives as witnessed in various narrative sources.
Contents
1. Urban History and the Materialities of/in Literature Part I: Literary Fiction as Urban Materiality 2. Between the Street and the Drawing Room: Slumming in Eliot's Early Poetry 3. Recycling Fictions in the City: Don DeLillo and the Materiality of Waste 4. Embodied Experience of London's Material Structures in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor 5. Sensory Environments of Poverty Seen Through the Writings of Runar Schildt, Toivo Tarvas, and Elvi Sinervo 6. "Quite an Aristocratic Place, Although in Whitechapel": Hospital Topographies and Margaret Harkness's Writing of London Part II: Literary Narratives as Social Investigations of the Material City 7. "The Casey Court House Builders": 1930s Children's Comics and the Material Transformation of East London 8. "On the Square": Constructing the Dangers of Depression-Era London in Ada Chesterton's Social Investigations 9. "Would You Adam-and-Eve-It?": Geography, Materiality and Authenticity in Novels of Victorian and Edwardian London 10. The Literary Adventure of the Skyscraper in France (1893-1930): Literary Narratives and Urban Architecture Between Fiction and Reality Part III: Narrating Silenced Material Lives 11. The Unconfessed Architecture of Cape Town 12. City Tales in Dialogue: Vijayanagara through Travelogues and Archaeology 13. Memorialising Materiality: Narrative as Archive in Neo-Liberal Delhi
