Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University London, UK.Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city’s contemporary moment.

• Contents Acknowledgments ContributorsIntroduction: Parallax LondonNick Hubble and Philip Tew1. Exploring London in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005): Trauma and the Traumatological, Identity Politics, andVicarious Victimhood.Philip Tew2. Seeing ‘the empty space’: Ali Smith’s The AccidentalSusan Alice Fischer3. Delineating the Liminal in Illimitable London: Will Self’s The Book of Dave and the Cockney VisionarySebastian Jenner4. The Changingman: Masculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog Nick Bentley5. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Sacredness of Space and TimeTomasz Niedokos 6. London’s Museum Spaces in the Works of A.S. Byatt and Peter AckroydDoris Bremm7. ‘An Infinitely Accommodating Substance’: Chaos Theory and States Between in Sinclair’s London.Laura Colombino8. Feeling London Globally: The Location of Affect in White TeethJung Su9. Agency and Conflict in Andrea Levy’s Polyphonic LondonAnja Müller-Wood10. The Liminality of Underground LondonNora Pleßke11.The Un-, Ab-, and Alter-Londons of China Miéville: Imaginary Spaces for Concrete Subjects.Mark P. Williams12. Common People: Class, Gender and Social Change in the London Fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie SmithNick HubbleIndex

Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University London, UK.Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city’s contemporary moment.

• Contents Acknowledgments ContributorsIntroduction: Parallax LondonNick Hubble and Philip Tew1. Exploring London in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005): Trauma and the Traumatological, Identity Politics, andVicarious Victimhood.Philip Tew2. Seeing ‘the empty space’: Ali Smith’s The AccidentalSusan Alice Fischer3. Delineating the Liminal in Illimitable London: Will Self’s The Book of Dave and the Cockney VisionarySebastian Jenner4. The Changingman: Masculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog Nick Bentley5. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Sacredness of Space and TimeTomasz Niedokos 6. London’s Museum Spaces in the Works of A.S. Byatt and Peter AckroydDoris Bremm7. ‘An Infinitely Accommodating Substance’: Chaos Theory and States Between in Sinclair’s London.Laura Colombino8. Feeling London Globally: The Location of Affect in White TeethJung Su9. Agency and Conflict in Andrea Levy’s Polyphonic LondonAnja Müller-Wood10. The Liminality of Underground LondonNora Pleßke11.The Un-, Ab-, and Alter-Londons of China Miéville: Imaginary Spaces for Concrete Subjects.Mark P. Williams12. Common People: Class, Gender and Social Change in the London Fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie SmithNick HubbleIndex

Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University London, UK.Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University London, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

This is a coherent collection of insightful essays that valuably extends critical study of London fictions right up to the leading edge of the city’s contemporary moment.

• Contents Acknowledgments ContributorsIntroduction: Parallax LondonNick Hubble and Philip Tew1. Exploring London in Ian McEwan’s Saturday (2005): Trauma and the Traumatological, Identity Politics, andVicarious Victimhood.Philip Tew2. Seeing ‘the empty space’: Ali Smith’s The AccidentalSusan Alice Fischer3. Delineating the Liminal in Illimitable London: Will Self’s The Book of Dave and the Cockney VisionarySebastian Jenner4. The Changingman: Masculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog Nick Bentley5. Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Sacredness of Space and TimeTomasz Niedokos 6. London’s Museum Spaces in the Works of A.S. Byatt and Peter AckroydDoris Bremm7. ‘An Infinitely Accommodating Substance’: Chaos Theory and States Between in Sinclair’s London.Laura Colombino8. Feeling London Globally: The Location of Affect in White TeethJung Su9. Agency and Conflict in Andrea Levy’s Polyphonic LondonAnja Müller-Wood10. The Liminality of Underground LondonNora Pleßke11.The Un-, Ab-, and Alter-Londons of China Miéville: Imaginary Spaces for Concrete Subjects.Mark P. Williams12. Common People: Class, Gender and Social Change in the London Fiction of Virginia Woolf, John Sommerfield and Zadie SmithNick HubbleIndex