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The literary psychogeography of London : otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair / Ann Tso.

By: Tso, Wing Bo Anna [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Literary urban studies: Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xiii, 116 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783030529826 (paperback).Subject(s): Moore, Alan, 1953- | Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- | Sinclair, Iain, 1943- | Geographical perception in literature | Urban geography | English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 820.932421
Contents:
Chapter 1. Infinite London: the London-ness of London -- Chapter 2. The disintegration of London in Alan Moore's psychogeography -- Chapter 3. Peter Ackroyd's sensuous detective method in Hawksmoor -- Chapter 4. Writing psychogeography, writing London through a screen darkly: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings -- Chapter 5. London-ness: a marriage of the literary and the psychogeographical.
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This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair's respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these authors write London "psychogeographically" to deconstruct popular visions of London with colonial and neoliberal undertones. Moore's psychogeography consists of bird's-eye views that reveal the brute force threatening to unravel Londonscape from within; Ackroyd's aims to detect London sensuously, since every new awareness recalls an otherworldly London; Sinclair's conjures up a narrative consciousness made erratic by London's disunified landscape. Drawing together the dystopian, the phenomenological, and the postcolonial, Tso explores how these texts characterize "London-ness" as estranging.

Chapter 1. Infinite London: the London-ness of London -- Chapter 2. The disintegration of London in Alan Moore's psychogeography -- Chapter 3. Peter Ackroyd's sensuous detective method in Hawksmoor -- Chapter 4. Writing psychogeography, writing London through a screen darkly: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings -- Chapter 5. London-ness: a marriage of the literary and the psychogeographical.

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Ann Tso is Instructor of English at Lethbridge College, Canada. Much of her research concerns popular re-imaginings of world cities, particularly theories of worlding and alternate histories. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Neo-Victorian Studies, The Literary London Journal , and Journal of Narrative Theory.