Cities and Literature

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of boxes
Introduction
	Scope and limits
	Themes and synopsis
	Notes
1. The city and the countryside
	Longbourne
	Land-scape
	Land-escape
	Wild-scape
	Inescapable ties
	Lost idylls?
	Conclusion
	Notes
2. Utopias
	Problematic utopianism
	Bliss
	Escapades
	Palaces and arcades
	Building utopia
	An ideal city? Samuel and Henrietta Barnett
	Gilded panes
	Notes
3. Dystopias
	Silas the hand-weaver
	Poor people, dark times
	Wider publics
	Internalisation and reform
	Sister Carrie – decline and fall
	Void
	Residual dystopianism
	Notes
4. Metropolis
	Metropolitan perceptions
	Women’s Berlin?
	Gendered space
	Writing the metropolis
	Bloomsbury affinities
	Notes
5. Bohemians and avant-gardes
	L’Abbeye de Créteil and modernist autonomy
	Women in bohemia and the avant-gardes
	Simultaneity
	Notes
6. Ruinscapes
	The attraction of ruins
	Terminal decline
	Themes
	The maquis
	Notes
7. Exile
	Waiting
	Nostalgia
	Realism
	Going
	Notes
8. Post-war
	A honeyed peace?
	A new vision
	Working-class tales
	Not-not going on
	Being engaged
	Notes
9. Alterities
	Belonging?
	The Windrush generation
	Colonial hauntings
	Post-colonial subjects
	Notes
10. Cosmopolitanisms
	Rational cosmopolitanism
	German tragic drama
	Cosmopolitanisms
	Postmodern cosmopolitanisms
	Contingent cosmopolitanism
	Conclusion
	Notes
Selected bibliography of critical (secondary) sources
Index