The Cambridge companion to the city in literature / edited by Kevin R. McNamara.
McNamara, Kevin R., 1958- editor.
2014
PN56.C55 C36 2014 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to the city in literature / edited by Kevin R. McNamara.
ISBN 9781107028036 hardcover
1107028035 hardcover
9781107609150 paperback
1107609151 paperback
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language English
Description xxvii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN56.C55 C36 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.93321732
Summary "From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which allegorical cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period, while subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the relationship between urban landscape and memory. These later chapters explore the form of the literary city and its response to social and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural, and linguistic outsiders"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author McNamara, Kevin R., 1958- editor.
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
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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 L. 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.

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