Overview
- Reads urban space through the lens of time as a theoretical and thematic concept
- Engages with representations of pockets of space in cities resistant to time
- Considers intersections of time and memory, movement, material space, and affect
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Time and Memory
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Time and Motion
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Time and Melancholy
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About this book
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anne-Marie Evans is Associate Head of School for English Literature, York St John University, UK.
Kaley Kramer is Deputy Head of English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
Editors: Anne-Marie Evans, Kaley Kramer
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55961-8
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), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55960-1Published: 19 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55963-2Published: 19 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55961-8Published: 18 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 270
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)