The contributions to this volume address the materiality of literary narratives in urban history from a range of perspectives and in light of a wealth of textual materials, in an effort to see how literature studies could learn from urban history, and vice versa.

1. Urban History and the Materialities of/in Literature Part I: Literary Fiction as Urban Materiality 2. Between the Street and the Drawing Room: Slumming in Eliot's Early Poetry 3. Recycling Fictions in the City: Don DeLillo and the Materiality of Waste 4. Embodied Experience of London's Material Structures in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor 5. Sensory Environments of Poverty Seen Through the Writings of Runar Schildt, Toivo Tarvas, and Elvi Sinervo 6. "Quite an Aristocratic Place, Although in Whitechapel": Hospital Topographies and Margaret Harkness's Writing of London Part II: Literary Narratives as Social Investigations of the Material City 7. "The Casey Court House Builders": 1930s Children's Comics and the Material Transformation of East London 8. "On the Square": Constructing the Dangers of Depression-Era London in Ada Chesterton's Social Investigations 9. "Would You Adam-and-Eve-It?": Geography, Materiality and Authenticity in Novels of Victorian and Edwardian London 10. The Literary Adventure of the Skyscraper in France (1893-1930): Literary Narratives and Urban Architecture Between Fiction and Reality Part III: Narrating Silenced Material Lives 11. The Unconfessed Architecture of Cape Town 12. City Tales in Dialogue: Vijayanagara through Travelogues and Archaeology 13. Memorialising Materiality: Narrative as Archive in Neo-Liberal Delhi