London in Contemporary British Fiction

Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University London, UK. Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Introduction: Parallax London
Nick Hubble and Philip Tew

1. Exploring London in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005): Trauma and the Traumatological, Identity Politics, and
Vicarious Victimhood.
Philip Tew

2. Seeing ‘the empty space’: Ali Smith’s The Accidental
Susan Alice Fischer

3. Delineating the Liminal in Illimitable London: Will Self’s The Book of Dave and the Cockney Visionary
Sebastian Jenner

4. The Changingman: Masculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog
Nick Bentley

5. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Sacredness of Space and Time
Tomasz Niedokos

6. London’s Museum Spaces in the Works of A.S. Byatt and Peter Ackroyd
Doris Bremm

7. ‘An Infinitely Accommodating Substance’: Chaos Theory and States Between in Sinclair’s London.
Laura Colombino

8. Feeling London Globally: The Location of Affect in White Teeth
Jung Su

9. Agency and Conflict in Andrea Levy’s Polyphonic London
Anja Müller-Wood

10. The Liminality of Underground London
Nora Pleßke

11.The Un-, Ab-, and Alter-Londons of China Miéville: Imaginary Spaces for Concrete Subjects.
Mark P. Williams

12. Common People: Class, Gender and Social Change in the London Fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie Smith
Nick Hubble

Index