Spectator and the city in nineteenth century american literature, the
Auteur :
Brand, Dana
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521152747
Date de publication :
5 août 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,5 cm
Poids :
380 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
In this publication, Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur, a detached and powerful urban spectator, to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature. Brand then offers his own readings of three of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century, Poe, Hawthorne, and Whitman.