Focusing on Jeanette Winterson's complete body of work, this study provides an in-depth analysis of her nine novels along with her non-fiction and minor fiction. Susana Onega explores formal elements like narrative structure and perspective, while also delving into thematic interpretations through diverse theoretical lenses, including narratology, feminist theory, and symbolic frameworks. This comprehensive approach offers a rich understanding of Winterson's literary contributions and the complexities within her narratives.
Table of Contents: 1. Approaching Visionary London: - Patrick Parrinder: „These fragments I have shored against my ruins“: Visions of Ruined London from Edmund Spenser to J. G. Ballard - Francesca Cuojati: De Quincey's Opiate London: From Labyrinth to Palimpsest - Timothy Webb: Dangerous Plurals: William Wordsworth, Bartholomew Fair, and the Challenges of an Urban Poetics - John Mepham: London as Auditorium: Public Spaces and Disconnected Talk in Works by Ford Madox Ford, Patrick Hamilton and Virginia Woolfs - John A Stotesbury: A Postcolonial Reading of Metropolitan Space in Graham Green's The End of the Affair 2. Visionary London: - Silvia Mergenthal: Whose Cityi Contested Spaces and Contesting Spatialities in Contemporary London Fiction - Heike Hartung: Walking and Writing the City: Visions of London in the Works of Peter Ackroyd and Ian Sinclair - Doris Teske: Jim Crace's Arcadia: Public Culture in the Postmodern City - Susana Onega: The Plato Papers: Peter Ackrody's „Contrary“ to Blake's Jerusalem - Jean-Michel Ganteau: London: The Biography, or, Peter Ackrody's Sublime Geographies - Mark Rowlinson: Physical Graffiti: The Making of the Represenation of Zone One and Two
