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Title
Literary capitals in the long nineteenth century : spaces beyond the centres / edited by Arunima Bhattacharya, Richard Hibbitt, Laura Scuriatti.
ISBN
9783031130601 (electronic bk.)
303113060X (electronic bk.)
3031130596
9783031130595
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-13060-1 doi
Call Number
PN761
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.034
Summary
"It was a pleasure for me to read this volume, as it composed a multifaceted city in front of my eyes. It reads like an urban kaleidoscope, but its beauty is also that it can be broken into pieces and used in classes. I will use it in my classes on urbanity and representation, for sure, and am sure it will find a ready public amongst scholars of urban studies, and students of the field, graduate and undergraduate." Patrice Nganang, Department of Africana Studies, Chair Stony Brook University, USA This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as literary capitals in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts and different genres, the book reads the nineteenth-century literary field as a constellation where different connections can be plotted across various points on the map at different times. Arunima Bhattacharya is a postdoctoral research assistant on an AHRC-funded project, The Other from Within: Indian Anthropologists and the Birth of a Nation (University of Leeds, UK). Her publications include Everyday Objects and Conversations Experiencing "Self" in the Transnational Space in Asian Women, Identity and Migration (2020). Richard Hibbitt is Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include the edited volume Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century: An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space (Palgrave, 2017). Laura Scuriatti is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College, Berlin. She is the author of Mina Loys Critical Modernism (2019) and the editor of Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (2019).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Literary urban studies
Literary urban studies.
Introduction: Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century-Spaces beyond the Centres
Part I: Beyond Europe
Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks
World-weaving in nineteenth-century east Asia: the case of Hong Kong's earliest Chinese newspaper, gems from near and afar (Chinese serial)
Turn-of-the-century Buenos Aires: a capital of queer spectacles
Part II: Redefining Peripheries
Bilingual authors, multilingual printing presses and 'informal capital': Pest-Buda in the early nineteenth century
Helsinki or Helsingfors? Jean Sibelius and the stage
'A place in Hungary': the phantasmal Dublin of Ulysses
Part III: Polycentric Italy
Trieste's 'Adventurers of culture and life'
Untimely, modern city: literary interventions on Florence as an intellectual capital at the turn of the century
From world capital to national capital: literary periodicals and the construction of modern Rome.
