Prescriptions on how to understand novels flutter in the wind. Imposed interpretations donot hold. Every core of understanding is a shell for further interpretations. As long as cities live and grow writers and readers continue to polish their facets. It examines the influence of physical surroundings on the instinctive behaviour of individuals as recorded in literature, literature being understood here in its widest sense of all written records left by a people or an era.
Novels are the main source but poetry and non-literary texts are acceptable as well.
A simple mention of topographical names is not enough. The description needs to contain elements which can evoke for the reader a mood produced by the physical surroundings. Also the opposite is possible, the impact of the mind on the surroundings. Certain thoughts can shake buildings on their foundations. Looks can cleave cloudy skies or bring a laugh to chilly streets.