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This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field A: Aberdeen through Autobiography -- B: Bakhtin through Byron -- C: Cairene society through Cruikshank, George -- D: Dada and surrealism and American cities through Dystopia -- E: East India Company through Extraneous - foregin, external -- F: Fanny Burney and Bath through From public to private: space and heterotopia in the writings of Pai Hsien-Yung -- G: Galdós and Madrid through Guatemala City and the colonial past in the historical novels of José Milla -- H: H.G. Well's London through Huysmans and Fin de Siècle Paris -- I: I.A. Richards through Ivan Vladislavic's Johannesburg -- J: Jaime Saenz and the urbe of La Paz through Jungle of cities -- K: Kafka through Kipling and E.M. Foster -- L: La hija del Adelantado through Lower East Side -- M: Mac Orlan through Music -- N: Nadine Gordimer's Johannesburg through Notre-dame de Paris -- O: Odessa in Russian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Yiddish literature through Oulipo -- P: Paris through Prussia -- Q: Queen West through Queer visibility -- R: Ragpickers through Russian cities: a summary history -- S: Salman Rushdie through Sydney: the unknown city -- T: T.S. Eliot: cities and the city through Tsuyu no atosaki [During the rain] by Nagai Kafū -- U: Underground Man through Urbanized opera -- V: Venice and Renaissance plays through Villon and Paris -- W: Walking in the crowd: Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin through Wordsworth, the Prelude Book 7 ("Residence in London") -- Y: Youssef Chahine's Cinematic Alexandria; Yū Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station: "I write for the people who don't belong anywhere" -- Z: Zagreb through Zola, Emile, The Kill.
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