Metropolis and Experience : Defoe, Dickens, Joyce.

By:

Yoon, Hye-Joon

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.Description: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443834926
1443834920
9781443834551
1443834556
1283436426
9781283436427

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metropolis and Experience : Defoe, Dickens, Joyce.DDC classification:

820.9355

LOC classification:

PR830.C53 Y66 2012

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Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

Summary: Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce offers a close reading of the major texts of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with their intertextual companions, from seventeenth-century "character" pamphlets through Baudelaire to Calvino. In doing so, it challenges the quietist complacency of specialization prevalent in current academia to contribute to a critique of urban modernity in the tradition of Simmel, Benjamin, and Lefebvre. Takin ...

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Metropolis and Experience: Defoe, Dickens, Joyce offers a close reading of the major texts of Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce, in their respective historical contexts and in comparison with their intertextual companions, from seventeenth-century "character" pamphlets through Baudelaire to Calvino. In doing so, it challenges the quietist complacency of specialization prevalent in current academia to contribute to a critique of urban modernity in the tradition of Simmel, Benjamin, and Lefebvre. Takin ...