Iain Sinclair, Radon Daughters

David Cunningham (University of Westminster)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1994

Places

Wales (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Radon Daughters is the third of Iain Sinclair's novels; one which may be regarded as closing a trilogy begun by White Chappell, Scarlet Traces (1987) and Downriver (1991). Like the earlier novels, and like most of Sinclair's poetry and non-fiction writing, it is a work profoundly concerned with place – specifically, the landscape, history and people of East London. However, while the capital remains the primary setting for Radon Daughters, the novel also narrates journeys to Oxford and Cambridge – the triangulation of the three sites returning Sinclair to a fascination with lines of psychogeographical and “occult” connection first explored in Lud Heat (1975) – and, in the short final section o…

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Citation: Cunningham, David. "Radon Daughters". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2492, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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