The Cambridge companion to the city in literature

The Resource The Cambridge companion to the city in literature

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The Cambridge companion to the city in literature

Statement of responsibility

edited by Kevin R. McNamara, University of Houston-Clear Lake

Language

eng

Summary

"From 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 allegorical cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period, while subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the relationship between urban landscape and memory. These later chapters explore the form of the literary city and its response to social and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural, and linguistic outsiders"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

TJC

Dewey number

809/.93321732

Index

index present

LC call number

PN56.C55

LC item number

C36 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge companions to literature
Cambridge companions to literature and classics

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