The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature

Herausgeber: McNamara, Kevin. R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This Companion takes as its subject the city in literary history. Its chapters explore the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which allegorical cities appear. This volume also considers the traditional relationship between literature and history by charting the evolution of cities and comparing this to literary representations of the metropolis.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781107609150
• ISBN-10: 1107609151
• Artikelnr.: 41079434

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kevin R. McNamara
1. Celestial cities and rationalist utopias Antonis Balasopoulos
2. The city in the literature of antiquity Susan Stephens
3. The medieval and early modern city in literature Karen Newman
4. The spectator and rise of the modern metropole Alison O'Byrne
5. Memory, desire, lyric: the flâneur Catherine Nesci
6. Social science and urban realist narrative Stuart Culver
7. The socio-economic outsider: labor and the poor Bart Keunen and Luc de Droogh
8. The urban nightspace James R. Giles
9. Masses, forces, and the urban sublime Christophe den Tandt
10. Fragment and form in the city of modernism Arnold Weinstein
11. Cities of the avant-garde Malcolm Miles
12. Urban dystopias Rob Latham and Jeff Hicks
13. Postmodern cities Nick Bentley
14. Colonial cities Seth Graebner
15. Postcolonial cities Caroline Herbert
16. The translated city: immigrants, diasporans, and cosmopolitans Azade Seyhan
17. Gay and lesbian urbanity Gregory Woods
18. Some versions of urban pastoral Kevin R. McNamara and Timothy Gray.