Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century: visible city, invisible world
Auteur :
Agathocleous, Tanya
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107663695
Date de publication :
19 déc. 2013
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
390 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
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.