Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel /

A literary investigation of how the modern metropolis--intoxicating, disturbing, powerful--changed perceptions and irrevocably altered the Western imagination. Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the...

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Main Author: Alter, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.
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