Imagined cities urban experience and the language of the novel / [electronic resource] :
Robert Alter.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
- xiii, 175 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
European fiction--History and criticism.--19th century European fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Cities and towns in literature.