Literary urban studies and how to practice it:
"'Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It' is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities' 'spatial turn' of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature,...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "'Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It' is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities' 'spatial turn' of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS, and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as tools for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modern, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of actual writers, texts and places. Thirdly, the volume covers literary urban modes: fictional and non-fictional prose in multiple genres; poetry and the idea of the city; dramatic city representation and the theatre as urban place. Key categories of place explored are multiple: the sacred spaces of religion; entry points such as railway stations and junctions; residential areas such as the 'slum', suburb and mass housing district; hubs of publishing and performance; categories of city such as the port and resort. Each chapter aids reference and learning via structured highlighting, reflection questions and tasks labelled 'Research It'. Some 'Research It' tasks enable readers to enter new areas of LUS including by engaging with neighbouring disciplines like human geography, cultural history, sociology, and urban studies. Others equip readers by sharpening particular skills of writing or documentation. A thorough glossary of key terms and concepts aids the reader. Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is designed for application to literatures and cities in any period and part of the world. Armed with it, humanities researchers at any career stage can develop their interdisciplinary skills and ability to participate in activism and public debates while becoming specialised in LUS. The book is a gateway to practicing LUS and spatial literary research"-- |
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Contents Acknowledgements Preface XI xm PART I An Orientation 1 1 Introduction 3 1. 1 Aims of the Book 3 1.2 What Does LUS Do? 6 1.3 Approaching LUS 8 1.3.1 LUS and You: ‘I’m Crossing Boundaries .’ 8 1.3.2 What Could LUS Become? Two Alternatives 9 1.4 Literature Review: Classics and Trends in LUS 10 1.5 Outline of the Book 14 1.6 Conclusion: Radical Openness 16 2 Concept, Method and Material 2.1 Introduction 23 2.2 Background and Contexts 24 2.2.1 Why Study Cities? 24 2.2.2 Place, Space, Canon 25 2.3 The City Concept 27 2.3.1 What Successful Concepts Share 27 2.3.2 Three Alternative Definitions of ‘The City’: Spatial, Municipal, Historical 29 2.3.3 What Cartography and Genre Do to the City Concept 31 2.4 Close and Distant: William Empson and Franco Moretti 32 2.5 Methods and Materials 33 23
vi Contents 2.5.1 A Note on Method 33 2.5.2 Cities as Materials, Texts as Materials 34 2.6 Case Study: Three Classic Metropolitan Literary Texts 36 2.7 Conclusion: Against the Social Sciences? No 41 PART П History and Presentness 3 Literary Urban Studies of a Pre-Modem World 47 49 3.1 A Long-Range Approach to LUS 49 3.2 Contexts and Traditions: Matthew Arnold and Raymond Williams 51 3.3 Chronologies of the (Literary) City in Existing LUS 53 3.4 Four Concepts: Authenticity, Anthropocene, Stratigraphy, Sacred Space 54 3.5 Methods, Materials, Practices 56 3.5.1 Decentring European Tradition 56 3.5.2 Pre-city, Other City: Moving Through the Anthropocene 58 3.5.3 Questions of Access to Materials 59 3.6 A New LUS for Old Europe 60 3.1 Case Studies: Aristophanes and Margery Kempe 62 3.7.1 Old Texts and Their References to Place 62 3.7.2 Case Study: Materialities of and in The Birds and The Book of Margery Kempe 63 3.8 Conclusion: Networking Across Borders and Time 66 4 When People Move to Cities: Urbanisation and Realism 4.1 Introduction 71 4.1.1 Realism, Disciplines and the Right to Be Heard 71 4.1.2 Outline of the Chapter 73 4.2 Judith R. Walkowitz and Henry James’ Arrivals 74 4.3 The Work So Far on Urban Realism 76 4.3.1 Detailing It and Evaluating It 77 4.3.2 Beyond Literary Studies: Feminism, Space and Time 79 4.4 Key Concepts 81 4.4.1 Contradictions of Realism: Verisimilitude vs. Plotting via Coincidence 81 4.4.2 Place Categories, Including the ‘Slum’ 82 71
Contents vii 4.5 Methods and Materials: How to Interpret Acts of Spectating 84 4.6 Findings and Results: A Gap in Urban Representation 86 4.7 Case Studies 87 4.7.1 Hesba Stretton’s Gendered Perspectives on the ‘Slums’ of Victorian London 87 4.7.2 Darkness and Light in Nineteenth-Century Cities 90 4.8 Conclusion: Checking and Questioning 92 5 Urban Modernity, Literary Modernism and Beyond 98 5.1 Introduction 98 5.1.1 Can There Be a Non-Hierarchical Urban Poetics of Modernity? 98 5.1.2 Outline of the Chapter 100 5.2 Context: Luigi Russoio and ‘The Multiplication of Machines’ 100 5.3 Readings of Modernism, Readings of an Iconic District 103 5.3.1 LUS, Modernism and a Broadened Modernist Studies 103 5.3.2 An LUS Reading of Harlem, New York: Sarah Wasserman 105 5.4 Key Concepts 106 5.4.1 How Do Outsider Figures and Literary Settings Relate? 106 5.4.2 Speed, Acceleration, Alienation 107 5.5 Methods and Materials 109 5.5.1 Handling an Opening 109 5.5.2 City Literature or New York Literature? Ill 5.6 Five Hypotheses about LUS and Modernism 113 5.7 Case Study 115 5.7.1 Distance Matters: Dual Literary Urbanities of Setting and Publishing 115 5.7.2 Verbal Pairings to Drive Literary Urban Research 116 5.8 Conclusion: Many Pasts, Many Provinces 118 6 Informal Planet: LUS and Contemporary Urbanity 6.1 Introduction 125 6.1.1 Informality and Identity in the Twenty-First Century 125 6.1.2 Provincialising Every Urban Region 127 125
viii Contents 6.2 Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Urbanisms 128 6.2.1 Lewis Mumford’s Anti-Urban Urbanism 128 6.2.2 Ananya Roy and Work to Décolonisé City Writing 130 6.3 Existing LUS on Multiple Continents 132 6.4 The Urban Network Concept and Postcolonial Readings 133 6.5 Rereadings and Biographies: Method in Postcolonial Readings 135 6.6 Mumbai and Unevenness 137 6.7 Case Study 139 6.7.1 Reading Step by Step 139 6.7.2 Land and City: Port-au-Prince/Montreal/Port-auPrince/Montreal 140 6.8 Conclusion: Taking Arms 142 PART III Literary Form, Urban Form 7 The Prose of the Urban World 7.1 Introduction 151 7.1.1 The Job of a User’s Manual 151 7.1.2 What Is Urban Prose? 153 7.2 Background and Contexts: Going Underground in Paris from the Cathedral to the Métro 154 7.3 Urban Prose Anatomised in LUS and Other Fields 157 7.4 Key Concepts: Focalisation, Panorama, City Personality 159 7.5 Psychogeography: A Controversial Method and a Category of Materials 160 7.6 Paris for the Parisian and Houston for the Houstonian? 162 7.7 Case Studies 163 7.7.1 Diversities of Time and Perspective in Victor Hugo’s Paris and Virginia Woolfs London 163 7.7.2 Two Views of the ‘Buckle of the Sunbelt’: Alan Hollinghurst and a Houston Plan 166 7.7.3 Narrating the UK Council Estate Through Memoir and Polemic Forms 169 7.8 Conclusion: Diversity but Navigability 172 149 151
Contents 8 City Poetry and Poets’Views of Urban Scenes ix 176 8.1 Introduction 176 8.2 Projecting Origins and Essences 177 8.3 Literary Scholars, Geographers, City Rhythms and Responses to Planning 178 8.4 Key Concepts 180 8.4.1 The Image and Impressionism 180 8.4.2 Apocalypse Then? Creation, Discussion and LongRange Views of Time in LUS 181 8.5 Attentiveness and Communion in Poetry Reading 182 8.6 Urban Poems from London, St Petersburg and Boston, 15961960 183 8.7 Case Studies 186 8.7.1 How Are Poems and Statues Related? 186 8.7.2 From Contexts to Research Traditions to Activism 189 8.7.3 Where Are the Grounds for Comparison? Two Modemist Poets on a Pre-City World 191 8.8 Conclusion: Let’s Leave the Metropolis 195 9 Theatre in the City and Cities in Drama 9.1 Introduction: An Urban Institution 200 9.2 On-Stage Contexts Versus Off-Stage Contexts 202 9.3 Epitomising Urban Drama or Seeking it in a Distinctive Example? 203 9.3.1 Classical LUS: Richard Lehan 203 9.3.2 Andrea Dunbar and the UK Council Estate Play: Dramatising One Urban Imaginative Place 204 9.4 Key Concepts: The Debate over Setting 207 9.5 Methods and Loci in Analysis 208 9.5.1 August Strindberg’s Urban Connections 208 9.5.2 Who is Presenting it to Us? 210 9.5.3 On Broadway and at Drury Lane: Theatre, Metonym and Urban Space 211 9.6 Tindings and Discussion 212 9.6.1 Handling Urbanisation On Stage via Indexicality 212 9.6.2 The Dangerous Urban Playhouse: Romantic-Era ■ Stage Regulation 214 200
x Contents 9.7 Case Study: Working with August Strindberg and Lorraine Hansberry 215 9.7.1 So Read the Plays 215 9.7.2 Next Form a Hypothesis 216 9.8 Conclusions: Theatrical Diversity, Meet Urban Diversity 219 10 Conclusion: Finding Your Way Through Urban Form and Literary Form 225 Further Reading 227 Glossary of Concepts and Fields Index 231 249
Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the fint textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities’ ‘spatial turn’ of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as took for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modem, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of writers, texts and places. The third unit covers literary urban modes: fictional and non-fictional prose in multiple genres; poetry and the idea of the city; dramatic city representation and the theatre as urban place. Multiple key categories of place are explored: the sacred spaces of religion; entry points such as railway stations and junctions; resi dential areas such as the ‘slum’, suburb and mass housing district; hubs of pub lishing and performance; categories of city such as the port and resort. In each chapter key terms, reflection questions and tasks labelled ‘Research It’ support reference and learning. Some Research It tasks enable readers to enter new areas of LUS by engaging with neighbouring disciplines like human geography, cultural history, sociology and urban studies. Others equip users by
sharpening particular skills of writing or documentation. A thorough glossary of key terms and concepts aids the reader. Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is designed for application to literatures and cities in any period and part of the world. Armed with it, humanities researchers at any career stage can develop their interdisciplinary skills and ability to participate in activism and public debates while becoming specialised in LUS. The book is a gateway to practicing LUS and spatial literary research. |
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Contents Acknowledgements Preface XI xm PART I An Orientation 1 1 Introduction 3 1. 1 Aims of the Book 3 1.2 What Does LUS Do? 6 1.3 Approaching LUS 8 1.3.1 LUS and You: ‘I’m Crossing Boundaries .’ 8 1.3.2 What Could LUS Become? Two Alternatives 9 1.4 Literature Review: Classics and Trends in LUS 10 1.5 Outline of the Book 14 1.6 Conclusion: Radical Openness 16 2 Concept, Method and Material 2.1 Introduction 23 2.2 Background and Contexts 24 2.2.1 Why Study Cities? 24 2.2.2 Place, Space, Canon 25 2.3 The City Concept 27 2.3.1 What Successful Concepts Share 27 2.3.2 Three Alternative Definitions of ‘The City’: Spatial, Municipal, Historical 29 2.3.3 What Cartography and Genre Do to the City Concept 31 2.4 Close and Distant: William Empson and Franco Moretti 32 2.5 Methods and Materials 33 23
vi Contents 2.5.1 A Note on Method 33 2.5.2 Cities as Materials, Texts as Materials 34 2.6 Case Study: Three Classic Metropolitan Literary Texts 36 2.7 Conclusion: Against the Social Sciences? No 41 PART П History and Presentness 3 Literary Urban Studies of a Pre-Modem World 47 49 3.1 A Long-Range Approach to LUS 49 3.2 Contexts and Traditions: Matthew Arnold and Raymond Williams 51 3.3 Chronologies of the (Literary) City in Existing LUS 53 3.4 Four Concepts: Authenticity, Anthropocene, Stratigraphy, Sacred Space 54 3.5 Methods, Materials, Practices 56 3.5.1 Decentring European Tradition 56 3.5.2 Pre-city, Other City: Moving Through the Anthropocene 58 3.5.3 Questions of Access to Materials 59 3.6 A New LUS for Old Europe 60 3.1 Case Studies: Aristophanes and Margery Kempe 62 3.7.1 Old Texts and Their References to Place 62 3.7.2 Case Study: Materialities of and in The Birds and The Book of Margery Kempe 63 3.8 Conclusion: Networking Across Borders and Time 66 4 When People Move to Cities: Urbanisation and Realism 4.1 Introduction 71 4.1.1 Realism, Disciplines and the Right to Be Heard 71 4.1.2 Outline of the Chapter 73 4.2 Judith R. Walkowitz and Henry James’ Arrivals 74 4.3 The Work So Far on Urban Realism 76 4.3.1 Detailing It and Evaluating It 77 4.3.2 Beyond Literary Studies: Feminism, Space and Time 79 4.4 Key Concepts 81 4.4.1 Contradictions of Realism: Verisimilitude vs. Plotting via Coincidence 81 4.4.2 Place Categories, Including the ‘Slum’ 82 71
Contents vii 4.5 Methods and Materials: How to Interpret Acts of Spectating 84 4.6 Findings and Results: A Gap in Urban Representation 86 4.7 Case Studies 87 4.7.1 Hesba Stretton’s Gendered Perspectives on the ‘Slums’ of Victorian London 87 4.7.2 Darkness and Light in Nineteenth-Century Cities 90 4.8 Conclusion: Checking and Questioning 92 5 Urban Modernity, Literary Modernism and Beyond 98 5.1 Introduction 98 5.1.1 Can There Be a Non-Hierarchical Urban Poetics of Modernity? 98 5.1.2 Outline of the Chapter 100 5.2 Context: Luigi Russoio and ‘The Multiplication of Machines’ 100 5.3 Readings of Modernism, Readings of an Iconic District 103 5.3.1 LUS, Modernism and a Broadened Modernist Studies 103 5.3.2 An LUS Reading of Harlem, New York: Sarah Wasserman 105 5.4 Key Concepts 106 5.4.1 How Do Outsider Figures and Literary Settings Relate? 106 5.4.2 Speed, Acceleration, Alienation 107 5.5 Methods and Materials 109 5.5.1 Handling an Opening 109 5.5.2 City Literature or New York Literature? Ill 5.6 Five Hypotheses about LUS and Modernism 113 5.7 Case Study 115 5.7.1 Distance Matters: Dual Literary Urbanities of Setting and Publishing 115 5.7.2 Verbal Pairings to Drive Literary Urban Research 116 5.8 Conclusion: Many Pasts, Many Provinces 118 6 Informal Planet: LUS and Contemporary Urbanity 6.1 Introduction 125 6.1.1 Informality and Identity in the Twenty-First Century 125 6.1.2 Provincialising Every Urban Region 127 125
viii Contents 6.2 Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Urbanisms 128 6.2.1 Lewis Mumford’s Anti-Urban Urbanism 128 6.2.2 Ananya Roy and Work to Décolonisé City Writing 130 6.3 Existing LUS on Multiple Continents 132 6.4 The Urban Network Concept and Postcolonial Readings 133 6.5 Rereadings and Biographies: Method in Postcolonial Readings 135 6.6 Mumbai and Unevenness 137 6.7 Case Study 139 6.7.1 Reading Step by Step 139 6.7.2 Land and City: Port-au-Prince/Montreal/Port-auPrince/Montreal 140 6.8 Conclusion: Taking Arms 142 PART III Literary Form, Urban Form 7 The Prose of the Urban World 7.1 Introduction 151 7.1.1 The Job of a User’s Manual 151 7.1.2 What Is Urban Prose? 153 7.2 Background and Contexts: Going Underground in Paris from the Cathedral to the Métro 154 7.3 Urban Prose Anatomised in LUS and Other Fields 157 7.4 Key Concepts: Focalisation, Panorama, City Personality 159 7.5 Psychogeography: A Controversial Method and a Category of Materials 160 7.6 Paris for the Parisian and Houston for the Houstonian? 162 7.7 Case Studies 163 7.7.1 Diversities of Time and Perspective in Victor Hugo’s Paris and Virginia Woolfs London 163 7.7.2 Two Views of the ‘Buckle of the Sunbelt’: Alan Hollinghurst and a Houston Plan 166 7.7.3 Narrating the UK Council Estate Through Memoir and Polemic Forms 169 7.8 Conclusion: Diversity but Navigability 172 149 151
Contents 8 City Poetry and Poets’Views of Urban Scenes ix 176 8.1 Introduction 176 8.2 Projecting Origins and Essences 177 8.3 Literary Scholars, Geographers, City Rhythms and Responses to Planning 178 8.4 Key Concepts 180 8.4.1 The Image and Impressionism 180 8.4.2 Apocalypse Then? Creation, Discussion and LongRange Views of Time in LUS 181 8.5 Attentiveness and Communion in Poetry Reading 182 8.6 Urban Poems from London, St Petersburg and Boston, 15961960 183 8.7 Case Studies 186 8.7.1 How Are Poems and Statues Related? 186 8.7.2 From Contexts to Research Traditions to Activism 189 8.7.3 Where Are the Grounds for Comparison? Two Modemist Poets on a Pre-City World 191 8.8 Conclusion: Let’s Leave the Metropolis 195 9 Theatre in the City and Cities in Drama 9.1 Introduction: An Urban Institution 200 9.2 On-Stage Contexts Versus Off-Stage Contexts 202 9.3 Epitomising Urban Drama or Seeking it in a Distinctive Example? 203 9.3.1 Classical LUS: Richard Lehan 203 9.3.2 Andrea Dunbar and the UK Council Estate Play: Dramatising One Urban Imaginative Place 204 9.4 Key Concepts: The Debate over Setting 207 9.5 Methods and Loci in Analysis 208 9.5.1 August Strindberg’s Urban Connections 208 9.5.2 Who is Presenting it to Us? 210 9.5.3 On Broadway and at Drury Lane: Theatre, Metonym and Urban Space 211 9.6 Tindings and Discussion 212 9.6.1 Handling Urbanisation On Stage via Indexicality 212 9.6.2 The Dangerous Urban Playhouse: Romantic-Era ■ Stage Regulation 214 200
x Contents 9.7 Case Study: Working with August Strindberg and Lorraine Hansberry 215 9.7.1 So Read the Plays 215 9.7.2 Next Form a Hypothesis 216 9.8 Conclusions: Theatrical Diversity, Meet Urban Diversity 219 10 Conclusion: Finding Your Way Through Urban Form and Literary Form 225 Further Reading 227 Glossary of Concepts and Fields Index 231 249
Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the fint textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities’ ‘spatial turn’ of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as took for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modem, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of writers, texts and places. The third unit covers literary urban modes: fictional and non-fictional prose in multiple genres; poetry and the idea of the city; dramatic city representation and the theatre as urban place. Multiple key categories of place are explored: the sacred spaces of religion; entry points such as railway stations and junctions; resi dential areas such as the ‘slum’, suburb and mass housing district; hubs of pub lishing and performance; categories of city such as the port and resort. In each chapter key terms, reflection questions and tasks labelled ‘Research It’ support reference and learning. Some Research It tasks enable readers to enter new areas of LUS by engaging with neighbouring disciplines like human geography, cultural history, sociology and urban studies. Others equip users by
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