Overview
- Represents the most substantial, comprehensive handbook in literary urban studies
- Editor is a well-known and widely-respected nineteenth-century scholar who has published extensively on cities and urban studies
- Appeal to film and cultural studies scholars as well as urban studies scholars, in addition to literary studies
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Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Latin American Cities
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“The book fundamentally addresses what effect on literature the various great cities around the world have (intrinsically) had. … there is a rich tapestry of depth running throughout this stunning book, that, for anyone remotely interested in literature and/or cities, comes both highly and regally recommended.” (David Marx Book Reviews, davidmarxbookreviews.wordpress.com, November, 2017)
“The relationship between literature and the city is a Gordian knot, that becomes more tangled the more the critic tries to unpick it. Rather than slicing through it, this ambitious collection of essays instead catalogues its dimensions, ranging far beyond the familiar studies of European and Ameriacan cities into Latin America, Africa, and Asia. With essays on Brasília, Lagos, Beiruit, and Tokyo, as well as Lisbon and Vienna, the result is a fascinating, almost encyclopaedic, account of urban literature on a scale that no one else has yet attempted.” (Scott McCracken, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City
Editors: Jeremy Tambling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54910-5Published: 27 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54911-2Published: 17 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 863
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, Urban History