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“The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power” (2024)
Journal Article
Peacock, J. (2024). “The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769x.2024.2393385

This paper argues that the blot in A Gambler’s Anatomy exists in a long line of deep metaphors in Lethem’s work, an ancestor of “Lack” in As She Climbed Across the Table (1997) and the giant hole in the center of Manhattan in Chronic City. In the con... Read More about “The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power”.

‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2023)
Book Chapter
Peacock, J. (2023). ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This. In Benjamin Markovits Critical Essays. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032614892-6

Halfway through Markovits’ novel about a scheme to regenerate Detroit’s neighbourhoods, the narrator, Greg Marnier (known as Marny), returns from his girlfriend’s apartment in the snow. On Mack Avenue, he starts to feel “scared” and reflects on “the... Read More about ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This.

Don't Look Now (2023)
Other
Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (2023). Don't Look Now. [Audio]

This song is an output from a British Academy-funded Small Research Grant project called 'Stories into Song'. The song was composed, performed and recorded by the project's participants and uses a methodology developed during the project based on the... Read More about Don't Look Now.

Never Let Me Go (2023)
Other
Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (2023). Never Let Me Go. [Audio]

This song is an output from a British Academy-funded Small Research Grant project called 'Stories into Song'. The song was composed, performed and recorded by Nick Bentley and James Peacock and uses a methodology developed during the project based on... Read More about Never Let Me Go.

Other neighbourhoods, other worlds: Gentrification and contemporary speculative fictions (2023)
Journal Article
Peacock, J. (2023). Other neighbourhoods, other worlds: Gentrification and contemporary speculative fictions. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 10(1), 113-134. https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00067_1

This article analyses three novels which employ speculative fictional elements to explore gentrification: Reggie Nadelson’s Londongrad (2009), K. Chess’s Famous Men Who Never Lived (2019) and N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (2020). Although these... Read More about Other neighbourhoods, other worlds: Gentrification and contemporary speculative fictions.

Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood (2021)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2021). Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood. European Journal of American Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.17534

This article explores two detective stories featuring protagonists with neurological conditions. Lionel Essrog, the narrator of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (1999), suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome, and Mark Genevich, hero of Paul Tremblay’s... Read More about Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood.

Gentrification (2021)
Book Chapter
Peacock. (2021). Gentrification. In The City in American Literature and Culture (103-117). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895262.007

This chapter uproots the border from the perimeter of the country, from the traditional dyad in which it is embedded and releases it in the urban landscape. The premise is that just as the category of space has been mobilized in the work of geographe... Read More about Gentrification.

Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person (2020)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2020). Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person. Critique, https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1832953

This article analyzes Auster’s employment of the second person in his twenty-first-century prose texts – Invisible, Sunset Park, Winter Journal and Report from the Interior – in order to challenge familiar humanistic readings of his work. Using theor... Read More about Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person.

Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels. (2016)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2016). Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels

This article looks at three New York crime novels by Reggie Nadelson - Disturbed Earth (2004), Red Hook (2005) and Manhattan 62 (2014). It argues that the atmosphere in these stories is, partly in response to 9/11, exaggeratedly apocalyptic, but that... Read More about Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels..

“My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (2016)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2016). “My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1228268

This article explores time in Miné Okubo’s graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Drawing on the work of Homi Bhabha, and comics scholars like Thierry Groensteen, it argues that Okubo’s complex representation of time serves several functions. First, it underm... Read More about “My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660.

Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global age (2015)
Book
Peacock, J. (2015). Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global age

Brooklyn Fictions: the Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age takes Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of these issues and for an interrogation of the intrinsic virtues of “community” as an idea.

Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels (2013)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2013). Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels. English, 69 - 86 (17). https://doi.org/10.1093/english/eft001

This article looks at the three William McIlvanney novels featuring detective Jack Laidlaw – Laidlaw (1977), The Papers of Tony Veitch (1983), and Strange Loyalties (1991). It examines the shift from third-person narration in the first two books to f... Read More about Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels.