Lieven Ameel is Senior Lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. He is co-founder and currently president of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS).

Table of contents

1. Literary Urban Studies: An Introduction

Lieven Ameel, Tampere University

2. Teaching Literary Urban Studies

Lieven Ameel, Tampere University; Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University; Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá; Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi; Silja Laine, Åbo Akademi; Liam Lanigan, Governors State University; Anni Lappela, Helsinki University; Juho Rajaniemi, Tampere University; Markku Salmela, Tampere University

Key Themes

[...] Map in City Literature

Liam Lanigan, Governors State University

4. The Spatial Practice of Idling as a Bridge Between Victorian and Modernist City Literature

Heidi Liedke, University of Koblenz-Landau

5. The Aesthetics of the City

Bart Keunen, Ghent University

[...] Palimpsest

Jens Gurr, University of Duisburg-Essen

7. Recursive Cities: Seriality and Literary Urban Studies

Maria Sulimma, University of Duisburg-Essen

Key Genres

8. Urban Satire in Ancient Rome

Grace A Gillies, Bates College

9. Medieval Civic Encomium: A Theme and Variations in Praise of Italian Cities

Carrie Beneš, New College of Florida, and Laura Morreale, independent scholar/Georgetown University

[...] Metropolitan Miniature

Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

11. The City in

Barbara Pezzotti, Monash University

12. Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations

Dominic Davies, City, University of London

Case Studies

13. The North African city: Literary Portraits of Colonial, Socialist, and Neoliberal Spaces

Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed, Columbia University

14. Embodying City Writing: Theatre as Bridge between the Literary and the Urban in Johannesburg

Alex Halligey, University of Johannesburg

15. Urban Mobilities in Francophone African Return Narratives

Anna-Leena Toivanen, University of Eastern Finland

16. Fictions and Frictions of Race and Space: Excavating the Transatlantic Urban Memoryscapes of Stuart Hall's Familiar Stranger (2017) and Hazel Carby's Imperial Intimacies (2019)

Julia Hori, University of Cambridge

17. The Form of a City: Geographies of Constraint in Contemporary Urban Writing from France

Michael G. Kelly, University of Limerick

18. Literary representations of the 2008 revolt in Athens: The Urban Minds' viewpoint

Riikka P. Pulkkinen, University of Helsinki

19. The Russian provincial town and the modernist Bildungsroman: Leonid Dobychin's The Town of N

Tintti Klapuri, University of Helsinki

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Liesbeth Francois, KU Leuven

21. Mobilities in Montreal fiction

Ceri Morgan, Keele University

22. Black Metropolis

Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University

23. Make the Neighborhood Great Again! Haifa's Literature of Urban Decline and the Palimpsestic Imagination

Chen Bar-Itzhak, Stanford University

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Annie Webster, SOAS, University of London

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Rita Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

26. Contemporary travel writing of Delhi: from belatedness and decay to globalist eruption in William Dalrymple's City of Djinns and Rana Dasgupta's Capital

Tim Hannigan, Technological University of the Shannon

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Liz Ho, University of Hong Kong

28. An Invitation to the Critical Literary Urban Vocabularies of 1970s Japan

Franz Prichard, Princeton University

New Debates

29. City outcasts: perspectives from the Hispanic female fantastic

Patricia Garcia, University of Alcalá

30. Mapping the Informal City in World Literature

Eric Prieto, UC Santa Barbara

31. Queer and Trans Theories of Urban Change

Davy Knittle, College of New Jersey

32. Future cities in literature

Paul Dobraszczyk, Bartlett School of Architecture

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Lena Mattheis, University of Duisburg-Essen