J.g. Ballard ― Landscapes of Tomorrow

Innovative and interdisciplinary essays on the increasingly significant British writer J.G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in his key works, especially The Atrocity Exhibition, one of the most challenging works in contemporary fiction.

Richard Brown is Reader in Modern Literature in the School of English at the University of Leeds and the author of much academic work on James Joyce including A Companion to James Joyce (Blackwell, 2008) and on contemporary writers ranging from Ian McEwan to Bob Dylan. His essay “Reading J.G. Ballard after the Millennium: the Scars of Crash, Cocaine Nights and Millennium People” appeared in the Millennial Fictions special issue of Critical Engagements (Autumn/Winter 2008). Christopher Duffy is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds working on a thesis titled “Heterotopic Space in Selected Works of J. G. Ballard”. He has taught English Literature at the University of Leeds. Elizabeth Stainforth is a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds. Her research explores memory’s significance for cultural heritage in the wake of digital technologies. She has worked as a researcher and University teacher and librarian and is one of the editors of the journal parallax.