Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

James Peacock is Reader in English and American Literatures at Keele University, UK. He is the author of Brooklyn Fictions: The Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age (Bloomsbury, 2015).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: (Not) At Home: Geographies and Genres of the Gentrification StoryChapter 1: The House as Character, the Character of the HouseChapter 2: The Frontier and the PicturesqueChapter 3: House of Pain: Gentrification and Home InvasionChapter 4: Renovations: Psychological Gentrification Chapter 5: Underworlds: Crime Stories and GentrificationChapter 6: Other Neighbourhoods, Other Worlds: Gentrification, Speculative Fictions and ApocalypseConclusion: Forms of ResistanceBibliography

An original and significant contribution to twenty-first century literary studies. Peacock offers a rigorous analysis of a diverse set of novels, and the focus on gentrification opens up new avenues for both the study and the teaching of contemporary fiction.