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New AHRC Award for Jim Peacock
James Peacock, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literatures, has been awarded a prestigious AHRC Fellowship for his research project, “Brooklyn Fictions: the Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age.”
The major outputs will be a monograph of the same name; a long article intended for a general readership which includes material from a number of author interviews; and a public interview with the author Jonathan Lethem at Pomona College, California in 2013. The monograph is best viewed as a work of “literary sociology”: it takes literary representations of place as symbolic cues to attitudes to local and regional community identities in a contemporary world supposedly dominated by global forces and movements. Using Brooklyn – “a small town in the world city” – as a case study, it examines the close relationship between capital and community formation.
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