Crévilles
Recherche utilisant ce type de requête :

Recherche avancée (contenus seulement)

Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century

Dublin Core

Titre

Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century

Sujet

, littérature, histoire urbaine, mondialisation, cosmopolitisme, Royaume-Uni, United Kingdom, Agathocleous Tanya

Description

Abstract from the publisher :
 
This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism, modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of writers throughout the nineteenth century - including William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad - explored the ethical, social and political implications of globalization. Showcasing a variety of different genres, Agathocleous uses the lens of cosmopolitan realism - the literary techniques used to transform the city into an image of the world - to explain how texts that seem glaringly dissimilar actually emerged from the same historical concept, and in doing so presents startlingly new ways of thinking about the meaning and effect of cosmopolitanism.
 
Tanya Agathocleous is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.
 

Créateur

Tanya Agathocleous

Éditeur

Cambridge University Press

Date

December 2010

Format

294

Type

Ouvrage