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Literary Second Cities |
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Preface and Acknowledgements |
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Contents |
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Editors and Contributors |
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List of Figures |
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Part I Defining the Second City |
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Chapter 1 The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics |
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Secondariness in Urban Studies |
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From Second Cities as Sites of Contestation to the Post-Urban Cittá Diffusa |
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Overview of Contributions to This Book |
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Conclusions: Second Cities, Literary Urban Studies and the Spatial Humanities |
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Works Cited |
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Chapter 2 World Cities and Second Cities: Imagining Growth and Hybridity in Modern Literature |
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On the Concept of “Second City” |
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World Cities and Other Cities |
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The Growth of Cities |
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Late Modern Urbanity and Its “States of Matter” |
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The Representation of Second Cities |
44 |
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Second Cities as Sites of Growth and Modernization |
44 |
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Hybrid Urbanity in Second Cities |
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Closing Observations: Second Cities in a Network Society and Their Potential as Mediopolitan Utopias |
52 |
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Works Cited |
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Part II In the Shadow of the Alpha City |
56 |
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Chapter 3 Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham |
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Departing from the Comic |
59 |
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Becoming City Novels |
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The South-Western Sector of Birmingham: Spatial Partiality |
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The Uses of Precision |
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Names and Structuring Contrasts |
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The Brown Heart of England |
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Panoramic Visions and a Birmingham Symphony |
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Conclusion |
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Works Cited |
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Chapter 4 “A Sort of Second London in Every Thing but Vitiousness”: Bristol in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1700–1750 |
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Bristol as Britain’s “Second” City |
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A Poetical Description of Bristol (1712) |
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London and Bristol Delineated (1744) |
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Conclusion |
96 |
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Works Cited |
98 |
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Chapter 5 Cities Within a Second City: The Case of Literary Tartu |
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The Evolution of Tartu’s Literary Image |
102 |
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A Different Tartu |
107 |
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Tartu on Jaan Kaplinski’s Map |
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Kaplinski’s Urbanature |
113 |
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Works Cited |
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Chapter 6 Still Learning from Las Vegas: Imagining America’s Urban Other |
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Navigating Vegas Literature |
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City of Excess |
126 |
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City of Exception |
130 |
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City of Reflection |
134 |
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Works Cited |
138 |
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Part III Frontier Second Cities |
141 |
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Chapter 7 The Capital of Otherness: A Geocritical Exploration of Diyarbak?r, Turkey |
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Introduction |
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Turkish Modernization and Its Others |
144 |
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Memory Surfaces |
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Amed: Capital of the Homeland |
153 |
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Conclusions |
159 |
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Works Cited |
159 |
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Chapter 8 Narva: A Literary Border Town |
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Border Town Cultural and Literal: Narva Since 1703 |
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Narva in Literature, 1700–2000 |
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Travelogues |
167 |
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The Divided Town in the Late Nineteenth Century: Raudsed käed on the Border of the Modern Era |
167 |
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Remembering Old Narva After World War II: Soviet Estonia on the Border of the Past |
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Abroad: The Last Border |
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The Reconciliatory Purpose of Literature and Architecture |
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The Building of Narva College |
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“Võõrad lood” and “Leegionärid” |
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Conclusion |
178 |
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Works Cited |
180 |
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Part IV The Diffuse Second City |
184 |
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Chapter 9 Riku Korhonen’s Kahden ja Yhden Yön Tarinoita as Reflection on the Suburban Fragmentation of Community |
185 |
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Writing the Concrete Suburb |
187 |
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The Episode Novel: The Narrative Form of a Fragmenting Social Cohesion |
188 |
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Satirizing Twentieth-Century Planning Discourse: Contact in the Compact City |
192 |
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Panorama and Diorama |
195 |
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Up and Down |
198 |
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The Mansion of the Gods |
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Conclusion |
201 |
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Works Cited |
202 |
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Chapter 10 “Away from Here to Tjottahejti”: Spatial and Sexual (Re-)Orientation in Places of Secondariness in Contemporary Swedish Fiction |
204 |
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Body and Place: Phenomenological Approaches |
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The Body not at Home in the Swedish People’s Home |
211 |
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The Literary Second City as the Bodily Experienced City |
215 |
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Spatial and Sexual (Re)Orientation |
220 |
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Works Cited |
224 |
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Chapter 11 Moving Beyond Venice: Literary Landscapes of Movement in Northern Italy’s “Diffused City” |
226 |
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Introduction: Leaving Venice Behind |
226 |
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Practicing Space in the Diffused City: A Geocritical Approach |
230 |
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Enacting Territorial Prose: Roads as Chronotopes and Cognitive Tools |
232 |
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Travelling Literary Routes Through North-Eastern Italy’s Road Network |
235 |
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Conclusion |
245 |
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Works Cited |
246 |
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Afterword |
250 |
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Second to None: Literary Geographies of Second Cities |
250 |
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Thinking of Second Cities as Literary Geographers |
252 |
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Second Cities for Writers |
257 |
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Works Cited |
260 |
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Index |
263 |
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