Literary Second Cities

Chapter 1 The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics

Chapter 2 World Cities and Second Cities: Imagining Growth and Hybridity in Modern Literature

Chapter 3 Comic Novel‚ City Novel: David Lodge and Jonathan Coe Reinterpreted by Birmingham

Chapter 4 “A Sort of Second London in Every Thing but Vitiousness”: Bristol in Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1700–1750

Chapter 5 Cities Within a Second City: The Case of Literary Tartu

Chapter 6 Still Learning from Las Vegas: Imagining America’s Urban Other

Chapter 8 Narva: A Literary Border Town

Chapter 9 Riku Korhonen’s Kahden ja Yhden Yön Tarinoita as Reflection on the Suburban Fragmentation of Community

Chapter 10 “Away from Here to Tjottahejti”: Spatial and Sexual (Re-)Orientation in Places of Secondariness in Contemporary Swedish Fiction

Chapter 11 Moving Beyond Venice: Literary Landscapes of Movement in Northern Italy’s “Diffused City”