Brooklyn Fictions

James Peacock is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures at Keele University in the UK. He is the author of Jonathan Lethem (2012) and has published widely on contemporary American fiction, detective fiction and transatlantic literary relations.

• IntroductionChapter 1: A Small Town in the World CityChapter 2: How to Read Brooklyn: Leaving BrooklynChapter 3: (Anti)Mythic Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Book of the DeadChapter 4 Divisions: Brooklyn CrimeChapter 5: New Picturesques: Fictions of Brooklyn GentrificationChapter 6: “Brooklyn Style”: Race and Urban Space in The Fortress of Solitude, Man Gone Down and The Coldest Winter Ever Chapter 7: Reaching Out, Reaching In: Transnational Brooklyn in Geographies of Home, Brooklyn and Girl in Landscape Conclusions and Further ThoughtsIndex

The first monograph that exclusively and specifically deals with ... "books about Brooklyn" ... Peacock's pioneering effort is coupled with his interdisciplinary approach of analysing representations of Brooklyn by making use of literary analysis and enriching it with the approaches of literary sociology and sociological theory ... [Its] well-executed interdisciplinary approaches, rich analyses, and structural inventiveness combine ... [to] make for worthwhile and insightful reading for anyone interested in New York City or cultural representations of urban spaces, in general.