Dana Brand

The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth Century American Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780521152747
• ISBN-10: 0521152747
• Artikelnr.: 31188707

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. The flaneur and modernity
2. The development of the flaneur in England
3. The flaneur in the nineteenth century
4. The flaneur in America
5. From the flaneur to the detective: interpreting the city of Poe
6. The urban spectator in Hawthorne's sketches
7. The Blythedale Romance and the culture of modernity
8. 'Immense phantom concourse': Whitman and the urban crowd
9. Conclusion
Notes
Works cited
Index.