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  title info:
    title: Cities and literature
  name:
    name part: Miles, Malcolm
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 225 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from urban cultural and critical theories. Cities and Literature shows how literature frames real and imagined constructs and experiences of cities. Arranged thematically each chapter offers a narrative which introduces a number of key thinkers and writers whose vision illuminates the prevailing idea of the city at the time. The themes are extended or challenged by boxed cases of specific texts or images accompanied by short critical commentaries, the structure provides readers with a map of the terrain enabling connections across time and place within manageable limits and offers elements of critical discussion to serve a growing number of university courses which involve the intersections of cities and literature. This volume offers access to literature from an urban perspective for the social sciences, and access to urbanism from a literary viewpoint. It is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of urban studies and English literature, planning, cultural and human geographies, architecture, cultural studies and cultural policy.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The city and the countryside -- Utopias -- Dystopias -- Metropolis -- Bohemians and avant-gardes -- Ruins -- Exile -- Post-war -- Alterities -- Cosmopolitanisms.
  note: Malcolm Miles.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-216) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Cities and towns in literature
  classification: PN56.C55 M55 2019
  classification: 809/.93321732
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city
  identifier: 9781138219526
  identifier: 1138219525
  identifier: 9781138219533
  identifier: 1138219533
  identifier: 9781315414850
  identifier: 2018016535
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180417
    record change date: 20181022112405.0
    record identifier: in00004003807