Anne-Marie Evans - Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

The Literary Urban Studies Series has a thematic focus on literary mediations and representations of urban conditions. Its specific interest is in developing interdisciplinary methodological approaches to the study of literary cities. Echoing the Russian formalist interest in literaturnost or literariness, Literary Urban Studies will emphasize the citiness of its study objectthe elements that are specific to the city and the urban conditionand an awareness of what this brings to the source material and what it implies in terms of methodological avenues of inquiry. The series focus allows for the inclusion of perspectives from related fields such as urban history, urban planning, and cultural geography. The series sets no restrictions on period, genre, medium, language, or region of the source material. Interdisciplinary in approach and global in range, the series actively commissions and solicits works that can speak to an international and cross-disciplinary audience.

Editorial board:

Ulrike Zitzlsperger, University of Exeter, UK; Peta Mitchell, University of Queensland, Australia; Marc Brosseau, University of Ottawa, Canada; Andrew Thacker, De Montfort University, UK; Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University, USA; Bart Keunen, University of Ghent, Belgium.

Peta Mitchell, University of Queensland, Australia

Marc Brosseau, University of Ottawa, Canada

Andrew Thacker, De Montfort University, UK

Patrice Nganang, Stony Brook University, USA

Bart Keunen, University of Ghent, Belgium

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This collection was completed during the global pandemic of COVID-19 in the late spring of 2020. We want to thankwholeheartedlyeveryone involved in the preparation and production of this collection, especially our brilliant contributors, who responded so quickly and cheerfully to all of our comments and requests for information. We would like to thank the reviewers of this volume for their invaluable perspectives and suggestions. We are extremely grateful to the editors of the Literary Urban Studies series, to Allie Troyanos, Rachel Jacobe, and Raghupathy Kalynaraman at Palgrave Macmillan for their belief in this project and their assistance, attention, and professionalism throughout this process. Thank you to Richard Wood, Nasser Hussain, and Larry Kramer for their timely help as well. We would also like to thank our colleagues at York St John University and Sheffield Hallam University for their support and encouragement. Finally and not least, thanks to our families and friends for everything and everything else.

As the editors and contributors to this volume make vividly clear, the city is a rich site for the exploration of times complexity. Taking us from New York and Los Angeles to Taipei and Istanbul, this collection properly re-centres discussions of the literary city around time and temporality, thereby making a major contribution to the fields of literary urban studies, time and temporality studies, and geocritical studies.

Adam Barrows, Associate Professor of English, Carleton University, Canada, and author of The Cosmic Time of Empire (2010) and Time, Literature, and Cartography after the Spatial Turn (2016)