Acknowledgements
Preface
1 . Introduction
2. Concept, Method and Material
3. Literary Urban Studies of a Pre-Modern World
4. When People Move to Cities: Urbanisation and Realism
5. Urban Modernity, Literary Modernism and Beyond
6. Informal Planet: LUS and Contemporary Urbanity
7. The Prose of the Urban World
8. City Poetry and Poets’ Views of Urban Scenes
9. Theatre in the City and Cities in Drama
10. Conclusion: Finding Your Way Through Urban Form and Literary Form
Further reading
Glossary of Concepts and Fields
Index
Biography
Jason Finch is Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, at Åbo Akademi University. Previous books include E. M. Forster and English Place (2011), Deep Locational Criticism (2016) and, as co-editor, Literary Second Cities (2017). A founder member of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS), from 2019–22 he is Principal Investigator for Finland on the project ‘Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities’ (PUTSPACE), funded by the ERC’s HERA programme. Jason’s literary urban research interests include London, housing representations and public transport.
