The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature (Cambridge by Kevin R. McNamara
By Kevin R. McNamara
city-states to the variety of literary functionality in contemporary
cities worldwide, literature and town are inseparably
entwined. The foreign crew of students during this quantity deals a
comprehensive, available survey of the literary urban, exploring the
myriad towns that authors create and the genres within which towns appear.
Early chapters contemplate the literary legacies of old and
symbolic towns from antiquity to the early glossy interval. Subsequent
chapters reflect on the significance of literature to the increase of the urban
public sphere; the affective adventure of urban existence; the interaction of
the city panorama and reminiscence; the shape of the literary urban and its
responsiveness to social, cultural and technological swap; dystopian,
nocturnal, pastoral and elegant towns; and the towns of colonialism,
postcolonialism, and financial, sexual, cultural and linguistic
outsiders.
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