Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century: visible city, invisible world
Auteur :
Agathocleous, Tanya
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521762649
Date de publication :
23 déc. 2010
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
560 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.