Literature and the Peripheral City

Chapter 1 Introduction: Peripherality and Literary Urban Studies

Chapter 2 Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit

Chapter 3 “It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” Urban Peripherality and the Narrative Framing of Literary Beginnings

Chapter 4 The Peripheries of London Slumland in George Gissing and Alexander Baron

Chapter 5 A Topography of Refuse: Waste, the Suburb, and Pynchon’s “Low-lands”

Chapter 6 London’s East End in Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem

Chapter 7 The Configuration of Boundaries and Peripheries in Johannesburg as Represented in Selected Works by Ivan Vladislavić and Zakes Mda

Chapter 8 Hungry and Alone: The Topography of Everyday Life in Knut Hamsun and August Strindberg

Chapter 9 A Forest on the Edge of Helsinki: Spatiality in Henrika Ringbom’s Novel Martina Dagers längtan

Chapter 10 Eduard Vilde and Tallinn’s Dynamic Peripheries, 1858–1903

Chapter 11 A Suburban Revision of Nostalgia: the Case of Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

Chapter 12 From Windowsill to Underpass: Young Women’s Spatial Orientation in Swedish Young Adult Literature