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Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Agathocleous, Tanya (Hunter College, City University of New York)
Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Agathocleous, Tanya (Hunter College, City University of New York)
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.
294 pages, 21 b/w illus. 1 map 1 table
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 23, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521762649 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 294 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 234 × 20 mm · 606 g |
| Language | English |