Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century Hardback: Visible City, Invisible World: 75 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 75) - Hardcover

Agathocleous

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ISBN 10: 0521762642 ISBN 13: 9780521762649

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.

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"Tanya Agathocleous provocatively investigates the mid-Victorian roots of our conflicted responses to urbanization and globalization....Effectively tracing the "long literary history of London-as-cosmopolis" from the 1850s through the 1920s, this book demonstrates its author's strengths as an archivist and her engagement with the growing body of scholarship on this topic."
-Joseph McLaughlin, Assc Profc of English at Ohio University, Editor for the Ohio University Press series in Victorian Studies, and the author of Writing the Urban Jungle: Reading Empire in London from Doyle to Eliot (2000).

"One of this particular study’s merits, along with its generous selection of excellent illustrations, is that it maps out the considerable critical literature on Cosmopolitanism. Its author, Tanya Agathocleous, is a well-qualified guide to the territory..."
-Dickens Quarterly

"Agathocleous situates her study among the growing body of work that seeks to "transcend a focus on the nation and nationalism"(2). She does so by focusing on the evolution of a distinctive form of cosmopolitanism that emerged in writing about London from the 1850's onward."
-- Victorian Studies

Biografía del autor:

Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521762642
• ISBN 13: 9780521762649
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294