Lost in the American city : Dickens, James and Kafka

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Label

Lost in the American city : Dickens, James and Kafka

Title remainder

Dickens, James and Kafka

Statement of responsibility

Jeremy Tambling

Creator

• Tambling, Jeremy

Subject

• Cities and towns in literature
• City and town life in literature
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge | America
• America -- In literature
• James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Knowledge | America
• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Knowledge | America
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• United States -- In literature
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Travel -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"In this book, Jeremy Tambling looks at European-formed reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth century. Dickens visited America in 1842 and his American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit set the agenda for future discussions of America. Tambling looks at Dickens's legacy through Henry James in The American Scene, through H.G. Wells in The Future in America, and especially through Franz Kafka in The Man Who Was Never Heard of Again. Lost in the American city explores the changes in American nineteenth-century urban culture that made America so different and so impossible to map, and that made American modernity so unreadable and challenging."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.809321732

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4592.A54

LC item number

T36 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography