Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century : visible city, invisible world /
This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism, modernism and the transition between them, t...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
v. 75. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: cosmopolitan realism
- pt. 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
- pt. II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the 'Fin de Siècle' and Beyond: 3. The realist spectator and the romance plot: 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.