Cities and literature / Malcolm Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Malcolm, 1950- author.

Series:

Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

The city and the countryside

Utopias

Dystopias

Metropolis

Bohemians and avant-gardes

Ruins

Exile

Post-war

Alterities

Cosmopolitanisms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138219526

1138219525

9781138219533

1138219533

OCLC:

1032288499