{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-the-city-in-literature-paperback-9781107609150","title":"The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107609150","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin R. McNamara (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107609150, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 October 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e517 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the city and its various meanings and contradictions … The book transcends genre, period boundaries and national divisions, making it an important starting point for those interested in any aspect of the city.' Forum for Modern Language Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom 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 cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere; the affective experience of city life; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral and sublime cities; cities shaped by colonialism and postcolonialism; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural and linguistic outsiders.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Kevin R. McNamara\u003cbr\u003e 1. Celestial cities and rationalist utopias Antonis Balasopoulos\u003cbr\u003e 2. The city in the literature of antiquity Susan Stephens\u003cbr\u003e 3. The medieval and early modern city in literature Karen Newman\u003cbr\u003e 4. The spectator and rise of the modern metropole Alison O'Byrne\u003cbr\u003e 5. Memory, desire, lyric: the flâneur Catherine Nesci\u003cbr\u003e 6. Social science and urban realist narrative Stuart Culver\u003cbr\u003e 7. The socio-economic outsider: labor and the poor Bart Keunen and Luc de Droogh\u003cbr\u003e 8. The urban nightspace James R. Giles\u003cbr\u003e 9. Masses, forces, and the urban sublime Christophe den Tandt\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fragment and form in the city of modernism Arnold Weinstein\u003cbr\u003e 11. Cities of the avant-garde Malcolm Miles\u003cbr\u003e 12. Urban dystopias Rob Latham and Jeff Hicks\u003cbr\u003e 13. Postmodern cities Nick Bentley\u003cbr\u003e 14. Colonial cities Seth Graebner\u003cbr\u003e 15. Postcolonial cities Caroline Herbert\u003cbr\u003e 16. The translated city: immigrants, diasporans, and cosmopolitans Azade Seyhan\u003cbr\u003e 17. Gay and lesbian urbanity Gregory Woods\u003cbr\u003e 18. Some versions of urban pastoral Kevin R. McNamara and Timothy Gray.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46002537857304,"sku":"9781107609150","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107609150i.jpg?v=1696766659","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-the-city-in-literature-paperback-9781107609150","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}