The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

1977 Pages·2022·31.436 MB·English

by  Jeremy Tambling

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
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JeremyTambling
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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
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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