Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City

Chapter 1 Introduction: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City

Chapter 2 “Why Should You Go Out?”: Encountering the City in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Potential of Urban England?: Jon McGregor’s If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Chapter 4 “We Exist Only in the Reflection of Others”: Imagining London’s History in Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe

Chapter 5 Gated Communities and Dystopia in J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes

Chapter 6 Celetoids and the City: Tabloidization of the Working Class in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Martin Amis’ Lionel Asbo: State of England

Chapter 7 Belonging and Un-belonging in London: Representations of Home in Diana Evans’ 26a

Chapter 8 Between Urban Ecology and Social Construction: Environment and the Ethics of Representation in Zadie Smith’s NW

Chapter 9 The Queer Gothic Spaces of Contemporary Glasgow: Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room

Chapter 10 Convulsions of the Local: Contemporary British Psychogeographical Fiction

Chapter 11 Trauma, Negativities, and the City in Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me