The urban fantastic in nineteenth-century European literature : city fissures / Patricia García.
2021
PN56.F34 G37 2021
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The urban fantastic in nineteenth-century European literature : city fissures / Patricia García.
ISBN
9783030837761 (electronic bk.)
3030837769 (electronic bk.)
9783030837754
3030837750
3030837769 (electronic bk.)
9783030837754
3030837750
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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©2021
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English
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1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
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10.1007/978-3-030-83776-1 doi
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PN56.F34 G37 2021
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809/.933709034
Summary
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. "Architectures," "Encounters" and "Rhythms" make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of "urban fantastic" within and across the European traditions studied here. Patricia Garcia is Ramon y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad de Alcala, Spain. Her research focuses on narrative spaces and their intersection with urban studies, feminisms and with representations of the supernatural. She coordinates the network Fringe Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections, has directed the project Gender and the Hispanic Fantastic (funded by the British Academy) and has been a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2018-2019) with a EURIAS fellowship. She is a member of Executive Committee of the European Society of Comparative Literature, of the Spanish Research Group on the Fantastic (Grupo de Estudios de lo Fantastico) and of the editorial board of BRUMAL: Research Journal on the Fantastic. Her most notable publications include the monograph Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: the Architectural Void (2015). .
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Literary urban studies. 2523-7896
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction The Modern Fantastic: A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 2: Fantastic Antique Shops
Chapter 3: The Citys Haunted Houses
Chapter 4: Female Spirits of Space
Chapter 5: Fantastic Exhibitions of the Self
Chapter 6: The Ghosts of Public Transport
Chapter 7: Cacophony and Asynchrony
Chapter 8: Epilogue. Contemporary Revisitations.
Chapter 2: Fantastic Antique Shops
Chapter 3: The Citys Haunted Houses
Chapter 4: Female Spirits of Space
Chapter 5: Fantastic Exhibitions of the Self
Chapter 6: The Ghosts of Public Transport
Chapter 7: Cacophony and Asynchrony
Chapter 8: Epilogue. Contemporary Revisitations.