Imagined cities urban experience and the language of the novel - Alter, Robert; ProQuest (Firm) (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Keywords: European fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Electronic books