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Jeremy Tambling Editor The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies Jeremy Tambling Editor The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies With86Figures Editor JeremyTambling UniversityofSocialSciencesandHumanities Warsaw,Poland ISBN978-3-319-62418-1 ISBN978-3-319-62419-8(eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8 ©SpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG2022 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeor part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations,recitation,broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway, andtransmissionorinformationstorageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,or bysimilarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Preface and Acknowledgments ThisEncyclopediafollowsonfromThePalgraveHandbookofLiteratureand the City which appeared in 2017, and like it, was a commission from Ben Doyle, who worked then as Humanities editor at Palgrave Macmillan. I am grateful to him, and to the wonderful Managing Editor at Palgrave, Ruth Lefevre,whohasatalltimesgivenmeadvice,andtakenonsomanyduties, andbeenhelpfulthroughout,andmadedifficultiesdisappearbeforetheycould bediscussedonthephone.Imustalsoacknowledgethehelpoffourstudents whom I taught at Manchester, and whose friendship and support have been invaluable since with various entries: Jack Sullivan, Tristan Burke, Kaspar Loftin,andJoRose.Inhelpingtosub-edit,theyhavemadelifemuchsmoother than it would otherwise have been. Many thanks, too, are due to those contributors who have suggested other subjects, and other writers, and suggested other contributors. They have given the project a wonderful lift andencouragedittobemoreambitiousthanwasitsoriginalintention. EntriesintheEncyclopediaarealphabetical,ratherthanthematic,orcoun- try by country, and because the work is in progress, it is not in any sense complete:itistheretobedippedinto.Readersarerecommendedtosearchin severalplacesforwhattheyareseekingfor;consistencyofhowtoenternames andsubjectshasprovedimpossibletoobtain.Whatappearshereisasnapshot, nomore,anditishoped,too,thatentrieswillbesupplemented,andimproved, astimegoesby.Theaimistobeempiricalandhistoricalandtheoreticaland speculativebyturns,andbydrawingonasmanycontributorsaspossible,to have as many critical voices speaking as there can be – some of them in contradiction with others, all of them attempting to go beyond the merely descriptive,andtoargueapositionaboutthecity. Authorsofentriesareliterallyfromallovertheworld,writingabouttheir own enthusiasms, and in many cases, suggesting them to the editor; and though English is notthe first language of many of them,and some ofthem have battled with it, English has been used throughout, and works and titles translatedunlessitseemedundulypedantictodoso.VarietiesofEnglishmust be accepted in these articles, therefore. Each entry gives references, and in somecases,suggestionsforfurtherreading,thoughtheaimhereisnottobe exhaustivebuttopointreaderstowardsthingsthatwillreallyhelp. ThehelpIhavereceivedfromcontributors–andIthankthemall,warmly, andsincerely,especiallythosewhohavewrittenononetopicandthenthought they could do another – has been indispensable. Many have written major essaysinwhattheyhavecontributed.Therearehundredsofsuggestionshere v vi PrefaceandAcknowledgments forfurtherreadingandexploration.ButImayalsosaythatcollectingcontrib- utors for this task has been difficult. In fact at times it has been well-nigh impossible, and if a contributor promised and then failed to bring forth the goods,thatusuallymeantthatatopichashadtoremainuncovered.Ithasnot beenhelped,sincethebeginningof2020,bytheCOVIDpandemic–indeed, morethanonecontributorhasbeenlosttotheprojectbecauseofit.Thereisno questionbutthatcity-lifewillalterthroughCOVID,whoserelationtoclimate change isalso significant: theimpact ofboth onsocialexistence,andonthe configurationofspacesincitiescouldhardlyhavebeenguessedatwhenthe project began, and at the time of writing it is too early to say what lasting effects either and both will have on the communal spaces in cities, on work practices,onsocialmobility,andoneverythingthatmakesgoodcitiessorich inwhattheyhavetooffer.ThepresentwarfareinEurope,disastrouswhichever wayitisregarded,threatensnotjustlivesandcitiesbutthevalidityofthinking aboutcitiesasformsofcivilisation. Ialsothinkthatenlistingcontributorshasnotbeenhelpedbytheresearch cultureintheUK,andelsewhere,which,concernedasitiswithgrantcapture onamassivescale,andsoonpraisingbigprojects,makesUniversityteachers lessinclinedtocontributetootherswhichlooklessimpressiveorlessprofes- sional in research ratings. Some areas are not as well covered as the Editor would wish, making the project look more USA-dominated and Eurocentric than it ought to be. It reflects an imbalance between research and teaching whichisfamiliar,butwhichspoilsboth:thisEncyclopediahasfelttheimpact sinceithasthefunctionofbeingbothresearchwork,someofitveryoriginal, andteaching,beingaplacewherepeoplecanbeginlooking. Nonetheless, there have been very many high points in editing the Ency- clopedia; in fact, there has been a high point in every contribution coming in. There is much here which I hope will be a genuine contribution to knowledge, and will I hope be stimulating, pleasurable, and helpful to read. Ifthatisso,muchofthepraise,andmylastthanks,mustgotoPauline,who has,asever,helped,prompted,andbeenfullofencouragementthroughoutthe preparation. London,UK JeremyTambling September2022 List of Topics AfricanCities:ModernityandSlums,Urban Be’er-ShevainShulamitLapid’sLizzieBadiḥi Literature,andCulture Series AhmedEssop’sJohannesburg Beijing:ACulturalHistory AlfredDöblin’sJourneytoPoland Beijing:CityandFilm AlgerianCities:KatebRacine’sNedjma BenOkri:TheFamishedRoad AllenFisher’sPoetryandtheCity Benjamin,Surrealism,andParis AlmodóvarandMadrid Benjamin,Walter AmitavGhoshandtheIbisTrilogy Benjamin,Walter,SiegfriedKraucauer,T.W. AnnHui’sCinematicsoftheOrdinary:July Adorno,andCompanionsWritingtheCity Rhapsody男人四十(2002) Benjamin,Walter:BerlinChildhoodAround1900 ArcadesProjectofWalterBenjamin BerlinAlexanderplatz AsianPhantasmagoriasoftheInterior Berlin:AnOverview AttheBackoftheNorthWind,George TheBillboardCommunity:TheVisualCultureof MacDonald SeoulandItsMultiplicity AtgetandMarville,PhotographersofParis Birminghamas“CompositeMonster”:Roy AthensandTravelLiterature Fisher’sCity(1961) BakhtinandCities:Petersburg,Paris,andRome BleakHouse Baldwin,James:MultisensorialSpacesof BorgesandBuenosAires:CreatingPlacefrom Harlem,NewYork SpaceinPoetryandProse Balzac BrasíliaandtheLiteratureItHasInspired Balzac:CousinPons BrechtinBerlin Balzac:CousinBette BrokenGlass:AlainMabanckou Balzac:LePèreGoriot(FatherGoriot) BrooklynNeighborhoodsintheMaking Balzac:SplendeursetMisèresdesCourtisanes BucharestandChicago:ATaleofTwoCitiesin Balzac:TheHistoryoftheThirteen(Historiedes SaulBellow’sTheDean’sDecember Treize) BudapestasaProductoftheBiedermeier Barnes,Djuna Imagination BarneySimon’sJohannesburg BuenosAires,1910CentenaryoftheNation BaroqueVenice Bulgakov,Moscow,andTheMasterand BaudelaireandBenjamin:‘Levindes Margarita chiffonniers’ CallItSleepbyHenryRoth:ALeapoutof Baudelaire,LesFleursduMal Murderer’sRow Baudelaire:Life CarlosFuentesandMexicoCity Baudelaire:ThePainterofModernLife CésarVallejo’sParisinPeru vii viii ListofTopics Chaucer,Geoffrey EçadeQueirós’sLisbon:BetweenParisandthe ChengXiaoqingandtheGenesisofChinese Mountains DetectiveFiction EdwardSaidandNewYork ChicagoandtheIrish-AmericanIdentityCrisisin EdwardYang,Taipei,andFredricJameson J.T.Farrell’sStudsLoniganTrilogy(1932– Empson,William(1906–1984) 1935) Engels:TheConditionoftheWorkingClassin ChristinaStead’sSevenPoorMenofSydney England (1934):EccentricModernismandRadical ErichKästnerandBerlin PoliticsinanAustralianMetropolis EugèneSue,LesMystèresdeParis(The CinematicBerlinandtheConstructionofIdentity MysteriesofParis) andAlterityinPostwarGermany EverydayHongKongandtheWritingsofYesi CitiesinHouHsiao-Hsien’sCinema FannyBurneyandBath CitiesinLucíaPuenzo’sFilms FelixNussbaum:OsnabrücktoAuschwitz CitiesinRuinsinModernPoetry Fenyang,China:FromXiaoWutoSwimming CitiesintheSouthAsiaSubcontinent OutTilltheSeaTurnsBlue Citizenship,Diaspora,andTorontoinBezmozgis’ FergusHume:DunedinandMelbourne ImmigrantCity FinancesandFocalizationinFlynn’sGoneGirl TheCityasPureFeeling:Cavafy’sAlexandria TheFlâneur CityComedyandBartholomewFair FlorenceintheNineteenthCenturyc.1840–c. CitySnapshots:WalterBenjamin’s“LittleHistory 1900(2):ForeignResidents,Visitors,and ofPhotography” Writing City-Without-Any-Quality(CWAQ)andIts FlorenceintheNineteenthCenturyc.1840–c. Counterparts 1900(51):ItalianWritingandCulture Cologne Fontane’sBerlin ConradandtheCity Forster’s(Un)SeenCity Copenhagen FrankO’HaraandtheNewYorkPoets CrimeandPunishment Frith,WilliamPowell Cruikshank,George FromPublictoPrivate:SpaceandHeterotopiain DadaandSurrealismandAmericanCities theWritingsofPaiHsien-Yung DadaandSurrealismandEuropeanCities GaldósandMadrid TheDandy GaoXingjianandtheHongKongHandover DanielLibeskindandDeconstructive Gaskell,Elizabeth,andManchester Architecture:OsnabrückandBerlin Gentrification,Mobility,andtheRepresentation Debord,Guy ofTorontoinAtwood’sTheTestaments Defoe,CitiesandthePlague GeorgeGissing’sTheNetherWorldand Defoe,DanielandLondon Clerkenwell DeleuzeanPerambulations:UrbanandRural GeorgeGissing’sThyrzaandLambeth WalkinginW.G.Sebald Giedion,Sigfried DhakaandAkhtaruzzamanElias TheGiftandTormentofLesbianBarsinAudre DhakaandBangladesh Lorde’sZami:ANewSpellingofMyName Dickens,theCity,andthePrison Ginsberg,Allen(1926–1997) Dickens,GreatExpectationsandtheThames GioBlackPeter’sSublimeSubwayMaps: Dostoyevsky,Fyodor ReadingtheRoutesofaQueerNewYorkCity Dunciad,The,(AlexanderPope):TheLiterary Gissing’sRepresentationof1870sFitzrovia TopographyofEighteenth-CenturyLondon Glissant,Edouard Durrell’sAlexandria GlobalizationandtheCityinMohsinHamid’s EastwoodandD.H.Lawrence Novels ListofTopics ix GogolandPetersburgandOtherCities Johannesburg Golgonooza JohannesburgtheEdgyCity GonzálezPrada,Manuel:Lima,theColonialCity JohnDosPassos’ManhattanTransfer(1925): inPostcolonialPeru Naturalism,Modernism,andRadicalPolitics Grossman,LifeandFateandtheSecondWorld intheModernAmericanNovel War JohnGayandTrivia GrubStreet JohnGay,BertoltBrecht,andUrbanizedOpera GuatemalaCityandtheColonialPastinthe JohnStowandEarlyModernLondon HistoricalNovelsofJoséMilla JulesLaforgueandBerlin H.G.Wells’sLondon JulioCortázarinParis HanoiinLiteratureandCinema Karachi Haussmann,GeorgesEugène KawakamiMieko’sBreastsandEggs HedayatandIsfahan Kingston,Jamaica:AColonialCityPortrayedby Hedayat,Sadegh NovelistJohnHearne Hedayat,TheBlindOwlandtheCity LagosandtheNewNollywood HenryJames’sBoston LaoShe HereandThere:ThePillarsandSoundsof LaoSheandBeijing Carpentier’sHavana LastNightsofParis Hessel:WalkinginBerlin Latin-AmericanUrbanChroniclers HjalmarSöderberg’sStockholm:The LifeandDeathofJackEngle,WaltWhitman PrecinematicFlâneurinFörvillelser LimaandMarioVargasLlosa [Diversions] LiuCixin(刘慈欣) HotelsinLiterature LiverpoolPoets,Novelists,andLife-Writers HuysmansandFindeSiècleParis LondonEarlyModernPlayhouses ImaginaryCities:GiorgiodeChiricoand LosAngeles Hebdomeros MacOrlan IndianSubcontinentCitiesinColonialismand MacDonald:Aberdeen,London,Manchester, Postcolonialism Bulika IntercityandIntracityRailwayTravelinthe Machinery,Mud,andtheMetropolis:The WorldofArnoldBennett:ALiterary PortrayalofŁódźinWładysławReymont’s Excursion ThePromisedLand Iquitos:TheBigIslandoftheJungleandIts MahaKhanPhillips,TheCurseofMohenjodaro LiteraryRepresentation Mahfuz,Najib,andCairo IrisMurdoch:DearLondon,Divided MandelstamandCities Dublin MarcAugéandNon-place IsaakBabel’s“OdessaTales” Marseille IsabellaWhitneyandLondon Martí,José IstanbulintheTurkishNovel:Ambiguityand MartinScorsese’sTaxiDriver(1976) Resistance Mass-Observation It’saRealNowhereMap:RicardoPiglia’sThe Maupassant:Bel-Ami AbsentCity MeasureforMeasure:Shakespeare’sCity IvanVladislavić’sJohannesburg Cartography JaimeSaenzandtheurbeofLaPaz MedievalLondonasNewTroy JamesJoyce’sDubliners:Geography“Taking Melville,“BartlebytheScrivener” Substance”UnderOurEyes MetropolitanTravelWriting JamesJoyce’sUlysses:AMultivocalDublin MexicoCityandHaussmann JapaneseCinematicMusic MexicoCity:QueerSlumming x ListofTopics MexicoCity:Women,Class,andUrbanSpacesin Pessoa’sLisbon:AfterlivesinSaramagoand SalvadorNovo’sNuevagrandezamexicana Tabucchi MIÀN面:JiaZhangke’sArtisticEncounterwith Phantasmagoria PradaRongZhai Physiognomy MinskorMensk PierceEgan:LifeinLondon(1821) ModernRome:MappingtheCityofDecline PiersPlowman ModernistParis PigliaandBuenosAires MohsinHamid’sTwinCities:NewYorkand PixaçãoinSãoPaulo:SubvertingtheLettered Lahore City MoosbruggerandTheManWithoutQualities Platonov:SovietWritingandHappyMoscow Moscow,StPetersburg,andConstructivism Poe,EdgarAllan Moscow:WalterBenjamin’sMoscowDiary Premchand:Rangbhoomi NadineGordimer’sJohannesburg PrincessCasamassima,The(James) Nadja:AndréBreton RaymondWilliams:TheCountryandtheCity Nantonaku,kurisutaru[Somewhat,Crystal]by RecifeandClariceLispector TanakaYasuo Recife:ThreePoetsofMemory Naples RestorationComedyandLondon NarratingtheCityinFilmNoir RichardWrightandChicago NeoliberalUrbanism:TheGlobalCityandthe Riga Shantytown RobertMusil:TheManWithoutQualities Neruda,Pablo RomeandtheShelleys Nesbit:MagicCitiesor“Prison[s]forChildren” RoseMacaulay’sLondon NewYorkandHowtheOtherHalfLives(Jacob RuskinandLondon A.Riis) RuskinandVenice NewYorkCityandtheTraumaticImagination RussianCities:ASummaryHistory NewYorkCityinPaulAuster’sTheNewYork SalvadorNovoandMexicoCity Trilogy SamSelvon:TheLonelyLondoners TheNewgateNovel:JackSheppard Sanditon NgũgĩwaThiong’oandOtherKenyanWriters Santa:ANovelbyFedericoGamboa NonsensifiedMunicipalities:Urbanizationin SantoDomingoinRitaIndianaHernández’La EdwardLear’sNonsense estrategiadeChochueca NotreDamedeParis SaulBellowandChicago OdessainRussian,Ukrainian,Hebrew,and Sewers:UrbanRealityandUrbanImagination YiddishLiterature ShakespeareandTheCity Oslo/Kristiania/Christiania:Ibsen,Hamsun,and Shanghai:ACitywithNoHeroes theModernUrbanBreakthrough SherlockHolmesandLondon Paris SimmelandTheMetropolisandMentalLife ParisPeasant:LouisAragon Singapore “Paris,theCapitaloftheNineteenthCentury” SiphoSepamla’sJohannesburg (Benjamin) SlumsandUrbanizationofPovertyin Past,Present,andPlace:SettinginCline’sReady PostcolonialIndia PlayerOne StanleyKubrick’sCities PaulVerlaineandtheParisianBohème Stockholm,StoraNygatan,andtheCityWriting Perec,Georges ofAugustStrindberg Performance,Performativity,Spectacle:Arthur SuburbsinWilkieCollins’sFiction Schnitzler,DerjungeMedardus Sydney,InterwarModernity,andModernism Peshawar:PastandPresent Sydney:TheUnknownCity
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