{"product_id":"urban-realism-and-the-cosmopolitan-imagination-in-the-nineteenth-century-visible-city-invisible-world-hardback-9780521762649","title":"Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century; Visible City, Invisible World (Hardback) 9780521762649","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUrban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVisible City, Invisible World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTraces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTanya Agathocleous (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521762649, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 December 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e294 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.56 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\"Agathocleous situates her study among the growing body of work that seeks to \"transcend a focus on the nation and nationalism\"(2). She does so by focusing on the evolution of a distinctive form of cosmopolitanism that emerged in writing about London from the 1850's onward.\"     -- Victorian Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism, modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of writers throughout the nineteenth century - including William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad - explored the ethical, social and political implications of globalization. Showcasing a variety of different genres, Agathocleous uses the lens of cosmopolitan realism - the literary techniques used to transform the city into an image of the world - to explain how texts that seem glaringly dissimilar actually emerged from the same historical concept, and in doing so presents startlingly new ways of thinking about the meaning and effect of cosmopolitanism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: cosmopolitan realism\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e 2. The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siècle and Beyond: 3. Realist details and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England\u003cbr\u003e 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\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":46265019990296,"sku":"9780521762649","price":95.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521762649i.jpg?v=1692018953","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/urban-realism-and-the-cosmopolitan-imagination-in-the-nineteenth-century-visible-city-invisible-world-hardback-9780521762649","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}