Romanticism and the City
Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues.
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- Full title :Romanticism and the City.
Summary
Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broader theoretical issues.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Basingstoke
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism; Part I Theories of the City; 1 Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals; 2 Wordsworth's Double-Take; 3 John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of "The Apostate; Or, Atlantis Destroyed"; 4 The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader; 5 Romantic Science and the City; Part II Continental Cities; 6 Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice; 7 E.T.A. Hoffmann's Marketplace Vision of Berlin; 8 Renzo in Milan.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (299 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780230118454, 0230118453, 1283067404, 9781283067409
- oclc:ocn712015877
- LC Classification:PN56.R7R655 2011
- Dewey Decimal:809.93358209732
Table of Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction The Infernal and Celestial City of Romanticism; Part I Theories of the City; 1 Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals; 2 Wordsworth's Double-Take; 3 John Galt, Happy Colonialist: The Case of "The Apostate; Or, Atlantis Destroyed"; 4 The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader; 5 Romantic Science and the City; Part II Continental Cities; 6 Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice; 7 E.T.A. Hoffmann's Marketplace Vision of Berlin; 8 Renzo in Milan.
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