Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii

List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction xi

Donald P. Kaczvinsky

I The Country and the City

1 Urban Flight and Rural Reception: Modernist Refuge in Panic Spring and The Dark Labyrinth 3(10)

James M. Clawson

2 Real and Unreal Cities: The Modernist Origins of Durrell's Alexandria 13(18)

James Gifford

II Durrell's Alexandria

3 Durrell's City as Interior Space: "The city begins and ends in us" 31(12)

Linda Stump Rashidi

4 Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria: The City as Nexus 43(10)

Anna Lillios

5 Strangers in a Strange Land 53(10)

Alice Bailey Cheylan

6 Writing (on) Walls or the Palimpsest of Time in The Alexandria Quartet 63(18)

Corinne Alexandre-Garner

Isabelle Keller-Privat

7 Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: A Culinary Perspective 81(16)

Merrianne Timko

III Cities, Places, and People

8 From the Interior City: The White Negro Thinking in Pidgin 97(8)

Paul Lorenz

9 "Roses, Feces and Vampires": The Carnivalesque in Durrell 105(12)

Fiona Tomkinson

10 Reading the Ethics of Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet 117(16)

Dianne Vipond

IV Durrell and the American Literary Landscape

11 "An Attention That Is Almost Holy": The Spirit of Provence in Durrell and Hemingway 133(12)

Matthew Nickel

12 Reverie of Utopia and Actuality in the City: The Cases of Justine and Blanche Dubois 145(12)

Michiko Kawano

13 "Where the Blue Algonquin Flows": Durrell, New York, and the American "Spirit of Place" 157(14)

Donald P. Kaczvinsky

14 Durrell's Alexandria Quartet: 50 Years Later 171(18)

Alan W. Friedman
Bibliography 189(8)
Index 197(10)
About the Contributors 207