Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

Acknowledgements
Praise for Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
	References
Part I: Time and Memory
	Chapter 2: The ‘Crazy Clock’ of York: Collapsing Time and Unstable Reality in James Montgomery’s Urban Topographic Poetry
		York, a Radical and Conservative City
		James Montgomery and Topographical Tradition
		Inner Space: The Pleasures of Imprisonment, Part 1
		‘Walking’ the Streets of York: The Pleasures of Imprisonment, Part 2
		Poisonous Dreams of the City
		References
	Chapter 3: Marshall Berman and D.J. Waldie: Memory and Grief in Urban and Suburban Spaces
		Marshall Berman’s Modern City
		Memory and Grief
		Becoming the Grid
		References
	Chapter 4: No Safe Sanctuary: Race, Space, and Time in Colson Whitehead’s Speculative Cities
		Alternative New York: Verticality and Notoriety
		City of the Future: Manhattan in Ruins
		Unsafe Spaces
		References
Part II: Time and Motion
	Chapter 5: ‘The Sensation of a Moment’: Speed, Stillness, and Victorian London in Wilkie Collins’s Basil
		The Omnibus
		Misreading and Manipulating the ‘Moment’
		The Victorian Suburb
		References
	Chapter 6: ‘This Is London, This Is Life’: ‘Migrant Time’ in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
		Towards a Notion of ‘Migrant Time’
		Loco-specificity and Local-specificity
		Imperial Time and Space
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Time and the City in Ulysses: ‘Like Holding Water in Your Hand’
		‘Time Is the Time Movement Takes’: Objective Time, Cartographical Place, and Realistic Dublin
		‘Can’t Bring Back Time’: Simultaneity, Continuous Present, and Dublin as Discourse
		‘A Most Edifying Spectacle’: Dublin under Surveillance and Unconnected Urban Milieu
		References
	Chapter 8: Time in the Translocal City
		References
Part III: Time and Material Space
	Chapter 9: ‘Skyscraper Primitives’: Futurity and Primordial Time in New York City, 1904–1932
		Technology as a Visionary Experience
		Artificial Space, Artificial Time
		The Evolution of America
		References
	Chapter 10: Temporal and Physical Liminalities of Trauma in Murakami’s After the Quake and DeLillo’s Point Omega
		Murakami’s After the Quake: Mapping the Temporality of Trauma
		DeLillo, Point Omega, and the Impossibility of Retreat
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 11: ‘Totaled City’: The Postdigital Poetics of Ben Lerner’s 10:04
		10:04: Post-Crash/Post-Postmodern
		Writing the City
		Postdigital
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Time and Melancholy
	Chapter 12: Los Angeles as a No Man’s Land: First World War Trauma in Raymond Chandler’s Detective Fiction
		References
	Chapter 13: Spatio-Temporal Reterritorializing of Queer Urban Spaces and Bodies in Bai Xianyong’s Taipei Novel Nei Zi 孽子 (Crystal Boys, 1983)
		Background
		Home
		The Park
		Cozy Nest
		References
	Chapter 14: No Center Other Than Ourselves: Istanbul, Hüzün, and the Heterotopic Portal Between Civilizations and Time in the Works of Orhan Pamuk
		References
	Chapter 15: ‘Our Native Reminiscence’: Clinging to ‘Lost Time’ in Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane
		The Isolated City, Migration, and the ‘Celtic Tiger’
		Utopia versus Dystopia
		Memory
		Nostalgia
		Ancient and Historical Bohane Film Society
		References
Index