Fictions of the city : class, culture and mass housing in London and Paris /
"Many studies of fictions of city life take the flneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to im...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | Language, discourse, society.
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| Summary: | "Many studies of fictions of city life take the flneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 204 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230579767 0230579760 9780230244917 0230244912 |