City Writing in English Modernist Novels

City writing is one of the literary terms in spatial criticism, and it does not regard cities in novels as static and void containers, but as a referential system of social and cultural information. The rise and development of English modernist novels accompanied the English urbanization, thus city writing became an important approach of the novelists in characterization and probing the theme of spiritual crisis. Some English modernist novelists employ city flanerie to present cities in their novels, and through fragmented narration to reveal the alienated inner world of the characters. City writing becomes one of the important ways of the modernist novelists to reveal the spiritual crisis of modern society