Resistance and the City

Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn in Germany. In his writing he focuses on Scottish Literature, the early modern period, and literary commemorative culture.Pascal Fischer is Professor of English and American Cultural Studies at the University of Bamberg in Germany. He has published on Jewish-American literature and culture, the Romantic period, and contemporary culture.

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors General Introduction Christoph Ehland and Pascal FischerIntroduction: Challenging Urban SpaceChristoph Ehland and Pascal FischerPart 1: Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries1 Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth CenturyChristoph Ehland2 The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the CarnivalesqueNorbert Lennartz3 Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century CitiesMihaela Irimia4 The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century LondonKerstin FrankPart 2: Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries5 Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century BritainGerd Stratmann6 Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in LiteraturePascal Fischer7 The “Capital of Discontent”: Urban Resistance in ManchesterBernd HirschPart 3: Reimagining Urban Space8 Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The BiographyStephan Kohl9 Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth ArchitectureMargaret Olin10 Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s CapitalIngo Berensmeyer and Catharina LöfflerPart 4: Creative Transformations of the City11 Critical Urban Studies and/in “Right to the City” Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural ProductionJens Martin Gurr12 Street Art as Reclaiming the StreetsMarie Hologa13 Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British PoetryIstván D. Rácz14 The Berlin Wall as Mobile RuinBlake FitzpatrickIndex