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... Anthropocene terraforming urban ecology urban literature speculative fiction When we think of “the land” and its literary representations, what usually comes to mind are the rural landscapes of Thomas Hardy or Willa Cather, the wild landscapes of James Fenimore Cooper, the social meanings of land...

... growth. When they expand the novel's hoary catalog of urban forms, contemporary writings also urge us to reconsider the relationship between capital- L literature and genre fiction. Freed from an obligation to represent the nation, contemporary postcolonial genre novels can stand out...

... experimentation drawn from a global cultural palette while exploring domestic or local themes. Like their Egyptian literary forerunners, these young writers addressed social and political questions, but both the urban and the geopolitical context within which they worked had altered dramatically as a result...

... to the rising science of architectural acoustics and to the social imperative to control sound in urban spaces. It argues that Woolf responds to the psychological and social exigencies of modern sound by integrating textual and architectural listening modes in an acoustic hermeneutic : a listening practice...

... discourse began to oppose what the preceding era had celebrated-the apart- ment building's capacity to create continuity between the street and the home." In what Marcus terms "the interiorization of the city," "urban literature transformed the catalogu- ing euphoria of the July Monarchy observer...

... of the global city, Tanya Agathocleous offers a revised account of Victorian urban writing. “Victorian city literature includes some of the darkest and most despairing work of the period,” she readily acknowledges (7). Still, Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century...

... of the day. Indeed the book offers close textual analysis of a vast array of writers and genres: canonical as well as obscure novels, short fiction, travel narrative, political literature in pamphlets and newspapers, urban history, and autobiography, as well as engravings, litho- graphs, and racialized...

.... Kalliney argues the case for a late-imperial and post-imperial English exceptionalism by turning to two discourses hitherto neglected in the discussion: class and urban space. Kalliney states, "[nlew definitions of class politics-and a domestic geography of class-became vital spaces in which...

...-Literature . Liverpool : Liverpool UP , 2015 . Dong Madeleine Yue . “ Defining Beiping: Urban Reconstruction and National Identity, 1928–1936 .” Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900 to 1950 . Ed. Esherick Joseph W. . Honolulu : U of Hawaii P , 1999 . 121...

... some- thing of a punchline in the contemporary popular zeitgeist. Yet Cook accomplishes more than simply affirming the representational link between urbanity and gayness with care- ful literary readings and shrewd archival work. His book is an achievement precisely be- cause it contributes...

... P, 1987 . Gandal , Keith . The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum . New York: Oxford UP, 1997 . Hales , Peter B. Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839–1915 . Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1984 . Howard...

...: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman . Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1989 . Coontz , Stephanie . The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap . New York: Basic, 1992 . Dubey , Madhu . “Literature and Urban Crisis: John Edgar Wideman’s Philadelphia Fire.” African...

...." Shaping an Urban World. Ed. Gordon E. Cherry. New York: St. Martin's, 1980. 203-26. Lane, Christopher. "Volatile Desire: Ambivalence and Distress in Forster's Colonial Narratives." Writing India 2757-1990: The Literature of British India. Ed. Bart Moore- Gilbert. Manchester: Manchester...

... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Contvibutors JOSEPH ENTIN is Lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University. His work on turn-of-the-century narratives about urban America's "other half" is part of a larger project entitled...

... of the encounter—that distinctly urban phenomenon that works of literature about cities are supposed to facilitate at the narrative level. 4 The objects and people in motion across Perec's peripheral vision never collide, never interact, but only repeat their circumambulation around the square without end...

... . Armstrong , Paul B. “Reading James’s Prefaces and Reading James.” Henry James’s New York Edition: The Construction of Authorship . Ed. David McWhirter. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995 . 125 –37. Baudelaire , Charles . “The Painter of Modern Life.” Selected Writings on Art and Literature . Trans...

...: A Polycenfric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History. He is completing a critical study entitled Postmodernism, The African American and The Global Periphery, and American and African American Narratives: Issues of Otherization. SHERI I. HOEM is Associate Professor...

...: Urbanization and Social Change in South Africa . Ed. David M. Smith London: Routledge, 1992 . 161 –71. Sachs , Albie . “Preparing Ourselves for Freedom.” Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995 . Ed. Derek Attridge and Rosemary Jolly. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998...

...FRANK CHRISTIANSON DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. HENKLE, The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2006), pp. 208, cloth, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Poverty and the Man DAN BIVONA AND ROGER B. I...

...’: Rentier Culture in Howards End.” English Literature in Transition 31 ( 1988 ): 285 –96. Rpt. in E. M. Forster. Ed. Jeremy Tambling. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995 . 67–80. Feldman , Jessica R. “Modernism’s Victorian Bric-à-brac.” Modernism/modernity . 8 ( 2001 ): 453 –70. Felski...