The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics

Finch, Jason; Ameel, Lieven; Salmela, Markku

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62719-9_1

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“…This may be due to what Finch, Ameel, and Salmela have described as Birmingham's "recessive cultural position." 29 The patterns revealed by this table are interesting. Birmingham demonstrates the greatest increase as the city tackled slum problems later in the century than Liverpool.…”

Section: Slum Journalism and Civic Shamementioning

confidence: 86%

Naming and Blaming: Civic Shame and Slum Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Manchester and Birmingham

O’Reilly

2022

Journal of Urban History

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This study analyzes slum journalism in the British provincial press and reveals that it continued to be a major theme until well into the twentieth century. Instead of the rather moralizing reporting of the earlier nineteenth century, this journalism used the device of civic shame to pressurize local government into taking action on slums as a matter of public health. It examines the discourses that resulted from civic shame in two newspapers—the Manchester Guardian and the Birmingham Daily Gazette—and challenges the idea that interest in reporting local political matters decreased during this period. Civic shame is shown to work in two ways—offering detailed vignettes of aspects of slum life based on personal observation and showing (some) slum-dwellers as worthy of better living conditions, and blaming the local authority directly for failing to address the problem. In this way, later slum writing sought to appeal directly to the reader not just to impart facts but to stimulate empathy and to develop a desire for action. Such in-depth studies of a particular social issue sought to address the local authorities directly, to apportion blame and to use slum writing as a tool for social action.

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Section: Slum Journalism and Civic Shamementioning

confidence: 86%

Naming and Blaming: Civic Shame and Slum Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Manchester and Birmingham

O’Reilly

2022

Journal of Urban History

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“…Literary urban studies focus on experiences of the city in literature and the citiness of literary texts (Finch et al, 2017: vi). Literary texts are ‘variously engaged, enveloped in, and constitutive of the material world they reflect upon’ (Ameel et al, 2020: 2), and they ‘raise questions about the experiences and imaginaries of our contemporary metropolitan landscapes’ (Hewitt and Graham, 2015: 934).…”

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On the move in the (post)colonial metropolis: The Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction

Toivanen

2021

Urban Studies

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Literary texts convey the complexities of the urban experience in a tangible way. While there is a wide body of work on literary representations of Paris, the role of public transport as part of the (postcolonial) urban experience has not received much attention. This article sets out to analyse the meanings of the mobile public space comprising the Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic literary texts from the mid-20th century to the 2010s. The reading demonstrates how the texts represent the public space of the Metro as a symbol of modernity, a space of disappointment and alienation, an embodiment of social inequalities and as a site of convivial encounters and claims of agency. Through this analysis, the article highlights the role of literature in elucidating the intertwinement of mobility, public space and postcolonial urbanity.

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Derry Girls and Cork Boys: Second Cities, Regional Identities and (Trans)National Tensions in the Contemporary Irish Sitcom

McIntyre

2022

Contemporary Irish Popular Culture

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The Second City in Literary Urban Studies: Methods, Approaches, Key Thematics

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Naming and Blaming: Civic Shame and Slum Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Manchester and Birmingham

Naming and Blaming: Civic Shame and Slum Journalism in Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Manchester and Birmingham

On the move in the (post)colonial metropolis: The Paris Metro in Francophone African and Afrodiasporic fiction

Derry Girls and Cork Boys: Second Cities, Regional Identities and (Trans)National Tensions in the Contemporary Irish Sitcom

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