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A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere; the affective experience of city life; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral and sublime cities; cities shaped by colonialism and postcolonialism; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural and linguistic outsiders.
London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.
Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.