Gillian Jein

Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing

Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851-1986

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers' representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781785271816
• ISBN-10: 1785271814
• Artikelnr.: 57788150

Autorenporträt

Gillian Jein

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Producing the City
2. Urban Oppositions: The French in Nineteenth-Century London
3. Revealing and Reconstructing London
4. Wandering Geometry: Order and Identity in New York
5. Writing around the Lines: Interpretive Travel Writing
Conclusion
References
Index