Imagined cities urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter.

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Main Author: Alter, Robert
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Flaubert--the demise of the spectator
  • Flaubert--urban poetics
  • Dickens--the realism of metaphor
  • Dickens--intimations of apocalypse
  • Bely--phantasmatic city
  • Woolf--urban pastoral
  • Joyce--metropolitan shuffle
  • Kafka--suspicion and the city.