Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Celestial Cities and Rationalist Utopias
- 2 The City in the Literature of Antiquity
- 3 The Medieval and Early Modern City in Literature
- 4 The Spectator and the Rise of the Modern Metropole
- 5 Memory, Desire, Lyric: The Flâneur
- 6 Social Science and Urban Realist Narrative
- 7 The Socioeconomic Outsider: Labor and the Poor
- 8 The Urban Nightspace
- 9 Masses, Forces, and the Urban Sublime
- 10 Fragment and Form in the City of Modernism
- 11 Cities of the Avant-Garde
- 12 Urban Dystopias
- 13 Postmodern Cities
- 14 Colonial Cities
- 15 Postcolonial Cities
- 16 The Translated City: Immigrants, Minorities, Diasporans, and Cosmopolitans
- 17 Gay and Lesbian Urbanity
- 18 Some Versions of Urban Pastoral
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
Guide to Further Reading
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Celestial Cities and Rationalist Utopias
- 2 The City in the Literature of Antiquity
- 3 The Medieval and Early Modern City in Literature
- 4 The Spectator and the Rise of the Modern Metropole
- 5 Memory, Desire, Lyric: The Flâneur
- 6 Social Science and Urban Realist Narrative
- 7 The Socioeconomic Outsider: Labor and the Poor
- 8 The Urban Nightspace
- 9 Masses, Forces, and the Urban Sublime
- 10 Fragment and Form in the City of Modernism
- 11 Cities of the Avant-Garde
- 12 Urban Dystopias
- 13 Postmodern Cities
- 14 Colonial Cities
- 15 Postcolonial Cities
- 16 The Translated City: Immigrants, Minorities, Diasporans, and Cosmopolitans
- 17 Gay and Lesbian Urbanity
- 18 Some Versions of Urban Pastoral
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature , pp. 261 - 272Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014