Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature : Writing Architecture and the Body (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Modular Bodies and Architecture as Skin: J. G. Ballard (1956-1975) 2. Human Ruins and Architectural Spectres (the 1980s and Beyond) PART I: Insubstantial Bodies and the City’s Organicism: Peter Ackroyd, Geoff Dyer and Michael Bracewell PART II: Ruins and Memory: Michael Moorcock and Iain Sinclair 3. Traumatized Subjects and Chaotic Substances: Iain Sinclair (the 1990s and the Millennium) 4. Corporeality within Abstract Space (from the 1970s to the Post-millennial) PART I: Islands and Rifts: J. G. Ballard and Geoff Ryman PART II: Stages and Intersections: Tom McCarthy and Zadie Smith Coda