Romanticism and the city
Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues.
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Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Nineteenth century major lives and letters |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118454 |
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Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230108837, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 304 p. |
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9780230108837 9780230118454 : 0230118453 : |
CLC: | I109.9 |
Contents: | Introduction - Larry H. Peer * PART I: Theories of the City * Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals - Michelle Faubert * Wordsworth's Double-Take - William Galperin * The Lost Transatlantic City of John Galt's "The Apostate" - Jeffrey Cass * The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader - Diane Long Hoeveler * Science and the City - Marilyn Gaull * PART II: Continental Cities * Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice - Nancy Yousef * E. T. A. Hoffmann's Marketplace Vision of Berlin - Alexander Schlutz * Renzo in Milan - Ernesto Livorni * Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol's Romantic Vision of the Eternal City - Tatiana Barnett * PART III: London * Wordsworth's Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of "The Prelude" (1805) - Eugene Stelzig * Blake's Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art - Mark Lussier * London's Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism - Thomas H. Schmid * Wordsworth's "Illustrated Books and Newspapers" and City Media - Peter Mannning * Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road - Tim Fulford. |