Tanya Agathocleous

Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Visible City, Invisible World

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780521762649
• ISBN-10: 0521762642
• Artikelnr.: 31192133

Autorenporträt

Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan
Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition,
Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and the
panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism;
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; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist
internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest
England; 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal
sublime; Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and
the invisible metropolis.