Cities and literature / Malcolm Miles.
| Author/creator | Miles, Malcolm, 1950- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city. ^A886716 |
| Contents | Introduction -- The city and the countryside -- Utopias -- Dystopias -- Metropolis -- Bohemians and avant-gardes -- Ruins -- Exile -- Post-war -- Alterities -- Cosmopolitanisms. |
| Summary | This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from urban cultural and critical theories. Cities and Literature shows how literature frames real and imagined constructs and experiences of cities. Arranged thematically each chapter offers a narrative which introduces a number of key thinkers and writers whose vision illuminates the prevailing idea of the city at the time. The themes are extended or challenged by boxed cases of specific texts or images accompanied by short critical commentaries; the structure provides readers with a map of the terrain enabling connections across time and place within manageable limits, and offers elements of critical discussion to serve a growing number of university courses which involve the intersections of cities and literature. This volume offers access to literature from an urban perspective for the social sciences, and access to urbanism from a literary viewpoint. It is an excellent resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of urban studies and English literature, planning, cultural and human geographies, architecture, cultural studies and cultural policy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Miles, Malcolm. Cities and literature. London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 9781138219526 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781315414843 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1315414848 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781315414850 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781315414836 |
| ISBN | 131541483X |
| ISBN | 9781315414829 |
| ISBN | 1315414821 |
| ISBN | 1315414856 |
| ISBN | 9781315414850 |
| Stock number | 9781315414836 Ingram Content Group |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |