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Friday, June 19, 2009

Alternate topographies

At the LRB, Iain Sinclair walks the Thames.
Posted by Jenny Davidson at 12:46 PM
Labels: Iain Sinclair, J. G. Ballard, Peter Ackroyd, psychogeography, river writing

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Jenny Davidson
My last novel was THE EXPLOSIONIST (HarperTeen), the story of a 15-year-old girl growing up in an alternate version of 1930s Edinburgh, one where the legacy of Napoleon's victory a century earlier at Waterloo is a standoff between a totalitarian Federation of European States and a group of independent northern countries called the New Hanseatic League. The sequel, INVISIBLE THINGS, will be published in Fall 2010. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Books

  • Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century (read the introduction here)
  • The Explosionist
  • Heredity
  • Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen

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  • Triaspirational
  • The Explosionist

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