Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel /

Alter, Robert.

Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / Robert Alter. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005. - xiii, 175 p. : ill. ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Flaubert--the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert--urban poetics -- Dickens--the realism of metaphor -- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse -- Bely--phantasmatic city -- Woolf--urban pastoral -- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka--suspicion and the city.

0300108028 (hbk. : alk. paper)


European fiction
European fiction
Cities and towns in literature.

801.95 ALT-I