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Fictions of the City
Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris, Language, Discourse, Society
ISBN/EAN: 9781349368266
Umbreit-Nr.: 9761120
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: vi, 204 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 29.09.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Zusatztext
- Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.
- Autorenportrait
- MATTHEW TAUNTON has taught at University College London, Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, Central St Martins and the Open University, UK. His research interests lie in British and French literature from the nineteenth century to the present, urban studies, media history and film. His journalism appears in the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.