Deep locational criticism : imaginative place in literary research and teaching / Jason Finch.

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Deep Locational Criticism -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of images and maps -- 1. Introduction -- A distinctive activity -- Organization of the work -- Preliminaries -- Place versus space? Casey and Certeau -- Contextualism and meta-contextualism -- Fascism and the problem of place -- Working principles -- Inside and outside texts -- Interactivity, interdependence and the lived body -- Scale, limits, technologies -- Topographic not synoptic -- Place first -- Not two but three -- Terminology -- The landscape alternative -- The case for location -- Imaginative place -- Experience -- Methodology -- A triad -- Zooming -- Scholarly, creative and cartographic resources -- Summing up -- 2. Applications in research and pedagogy -- Locating two poets -- Gwendolyn Brooks in "Bronzeville" and Chicago -- Christina Rossetti in London -- The intratextual landscape of a single work of literature: Bleak House -- Hillis Miller and Dickens: A study in topographic criticism -- Mapping novels in the head -- A line running down through England -- Two pedagogic forays into the decayed inner city -- A Fulham novel: Photographs and cultural difference -- 39.289372�N, 76.646848�W: The Imaginative Place Project -- Conclusion -- 3. The Heideggerian fourfold and a Shakespeare play -- Reclaiming Heidegger for literary studies -- Mysticism, fascism and deconstruction -- Literature, art and interaction -- The fourfold of Henry IV, Part Two -- Conclusion: Multiple temporalities, multiple fourfolds -- 4. The precise spot occupied by a Renaissance playhouse -- Theatre and thing -- Afterlives and repeated returns -- The Roaring Girl on London's peripheries -- A guide for the provincial gallant? -- Liberties, fields, suburbs and beyond -- The intermediate fortune -- Time travel.

Conclusion: Context and space revisited -- 5. Spatial deixis and a single story -- Levinson's neo-Whorfian linguistics -- Context and the thing -- Frames of reference in "The Letter" -- Extra-textual reference: Long Island -- Paths of reading -- 6. Technology and toponym in a canonized novel -- Electronic maps and cosmopolitanism -- Placing Forster's Abinger Hammer: Online maps and legwork -- Mapping Chapter 19 of Howards End with toponyms -- The potential of literary GIS -- 7. An imaginative place: The East End of London -- Repeated returns to the East End -- Plotting the shifting East End -- Stages on one road: Gissing, Shaw, Morrison -- Going too far? Thomas Burke and the ethics of slum fiction -- The East End after Burke -- Second stab -- 8. Anti-place and multiple place in Beckett -- Placed and unplaced writing? -- London toponyms in Murphy: A board-game world -- The madhouse of Murphy: Anti-place re-placed -- Regions of "nameless things" -- Turning the telescope on the without: The "manywheres" of Endgame -- Conclusion: Toponyms, regions and categories of writer -- Afterword -- A-Z glossary of terms -- List of references -- Index -- Deep Locational Criticism.

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