J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions

ALISTAIR CORMACK Head of English, Gresham's, Norfolk, UK SEBASTIAN GROES Lecturer in English Literature, Roehampton University, UK JEN HUI BON HOA Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA JACOB HUNTLEY Tutor in Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK DAVID JAMES Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Nottingham, UK ROGER LUCKHURST Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DAN O'HARA Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Cologne, Germany DAVID PADDY Professor of English Language and Literature, Whittier College, USA SIMON SELLARS Researcher in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia EMMA WHITING Independent Scholar, UK JOHN CARTER WOOD Researcher at the Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany

Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology.