Imagined cities [electronic resource] : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.

By: Alter, RobertContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005Description: xiii, 175 p. : illSubject(s): European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Cities and towns in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/9321732 LOC classification: PN3352.C5 | A48 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Flaubert--the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert--urban poetics -- Dickens--the realism of metaphor -- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse -- Bely--phantasmatic city -- Woolf--urban pastoral -- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka--suspicion and the city.
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