The Literary Psychogeography of London

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<p>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.</p><p></p>

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<div><p><b>Ann Tso</b> 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 <i>Neo-Victorian Studies, The</i> <i>Literary London Journal</i>, and <i>Journal of Narrative Theory.</i></p> </div>

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