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 ContributorsIntroduction: Parallax LondonNick Hubble and Philip Tew1. Exploring London in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005): Trauma and the Traumatological, Identity Politics, andVicarious Victimhood.Philip Tew2. Seeing ‘the empty space’: Ali Smith’s The AccidentalSusan Alice Fischer3. Delineating the Liminal in Illimitable London: Will Self’s The Book of Dave and the Cockney VisionarySebastian Jenner4. The Changingman: Masculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog Nick Bentley5. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Sacredness of Space and TimeTomasz Niedokos 6. London’s Museum Spaces in the Works of A.S. Byatt and Peter AckroydDoris Bremm7. ‘An Infinitely Accommodating Substance’: Chaos Theory and States Between in Sinclair’s London.Laura Colombino8. Feeling London Globally: The Location of Affect in White TeethJung Su9. Agency and Conflict in Andrea Levy’s Polyphonic LondonAnja Müller-Wood10. The Liminality of Underground LondonNora Pleßke11.The Un-, Ab-, and Alter-Londons of China Miéville: Imaginary Spaces for Concrete Subjects.Mark P. Williams12. Common People: Class, Gender and Social Change in the London Fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie SmithNick HubbleIndex

This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city’s contemporary moment.