Recently came across a Palgrave Macmillan book series entitled “Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies”; they are accepting book proposals.
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/52979
Certainly something scholars of city literature might want to look into.
The volume Literary Cartographies, with some articles on city literature, is being published by the series in September 2014.
Fascinating cfp for a conference of Urban Fragmentation(s) in Berlin, including a section on literature.
http://www.bic2015.de/call-for-papers/
Information from the original cfp:
BIC2015 is a conference for researchers interested in interdisciplinary approaches to exploring Urban Fragmentation(s) from a linguistic, literary, sociological, and historical point of view, or a combination thereof. The conference will be organized in three parallel strands, each chaired by a corrensponding GWZ-center (ZAS, Center for General Linguistics; ZfL, Center for Literary and Cultural Research; ZMO, Center for Modern Oriental Studies). There will be three plenary talks (speakers to be announced) – organized by the respective centers.
Call opens: July 15th, 2014
Abstract submission deadline: Friday, Sept. 12th, 2014
Notification of acceptance: Friday, Oct. 31st, 2014
Via Invisible Paris @INVISIBLEPARIS:
Brought by Invisible Paris: a map of Paris with all places mentioned in the literary works of Zola.
Great work, but also a rather crude device. In order to become truly interesting works for an analysis and reflection of literature (and imagined cities), google maps such as these would benefit from added literary analysis, noting the relationships between spaces and between spaces and plotlines – to begin with. Regardless of this comment, thumbs up to Invisible Paris for putting this together!
The Guardian features an excellent introduction to several American cities:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/reading-american-cities
So far New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC. Hopefully something coming on San Francisco at some point. And what about suburban spaces, mid-size cities, the provincial town?
The most recent article, “reading the midwestern metropolis of American literature” deals with Chicago
Photograph: Bruno Ehrs/ Bruno Ehrs/Corbis / http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/19/chicago-reading-american-literature-city-naturalism-modernism
Not exactly a literary city – or is it? A map of a city with literary locations from “over 600 books from the history of English Literature (and a few favourites from further afield).”
Here at electricliterature.com >
http://electricliterature.com/map-of-the-city-where-every-novel-takes-place/
