Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

Anne-Marie Evans is Associate Head of School for English Literature, York St John University, UK. Kaley Kramer is Deputy Head of English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

• Kaley Kramer and Anne-Marie Evans, Introduction.- Section 1: Time and Memory.- Adam James Smith, Nightmares and Cityscapes: Contradictory visions of the city in James Montgomery’s York Prison Poetry (1795-1797).- Alice Levick, Memory and Grief in Urban Spaces: Marshall Berman, D.J. Waldie, and the Modern American City.- Anne-Marie Evans, No Safe Sanctuary: Race, Space and Time in Colson Whitehead’s Speculative Cities.- Section 2: Time and Movement.- Helena Ifill, ‘The Sensation of a Moment’: Telepathy on the Omnibus in Wilkie Collins’s Basil (1852).- Quyen Nguyen, ‘Like holding water in your hand’: the Textual City and Time in Ulysses.- Sarah Lawson Welsh, ‘This is London, this is Life’: Migrant experiences of time and space in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.- Lena Mattheis, Peeling Layers: Transnational Urban Time.- Section 3: Time and Material Space.- Steven Nardi, The ‘Skyscraper Primitives’: Urban Space and Primordial Time in the 1920s American Avant-garde.- Megan Cannella, Indirect Memorialization of Trauma in Murakami's after the quake and Delilo's Point Omega.- Spencer Jordan, 'Totaled City': The Post-Digital Textualities of Ben Lerner's 10:04.- Section 4: Time and Melancholy.- Sarah Trott, The City as No Man's Land: Generational War Trauma in Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles.- Jean Amato, Reconfiguring Public and Private Urban Queer Space in Pai Hsien-yung’s Nieh Tzu (1983).- Michael P. Moreno, 'No Centre Other than Ourselves': Istanbul, Hüzün, and the Heterotopic Portal between Civilization and Time.- Deirdre Flynn, ‘Our narrative is reminscence’: Clinging to Lost Time in Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane.