Romanticism and the city
By: edited by Larry H. Peer
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Nineteenth-century major lives and letters; Nineteenth-century major lives and letters
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780230108837
Subjects: Cities and towns in literature; Public spaces in literature; History and criticism; Romanticism; Modern Literature
Description: Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nerve theory, sensibility, and Romantic metrosexuals / Michelle Faubert; title: Wordsworth's double-take / William Galperin; title: John Galt, happy colonialist: the case of the "The apostate; or, Atlantis destroyed" / Jeffrey Cass; title: The Gothic chapbook and the urban reader / Diane Long Hoeveler; title: Romantic science and the city / Marilyn Gaull; title: Phenomenal beauty: Rousseau in Venice / Nancy Yousef; title: E. T. A. Hoffmann's marketplace vision of Berlin / Alexander Schlutz; title: Renzo in Milan / Ernesto Livorni; title: Rome above Rome: Nikolai Gogol's Romantic vision of the eternal city / Tatiana V.  Barnett; title: Wordsworth's invigorating hell: London in book 7 of "The prelude" (1805) / Eugene Stelzig; title: Blake's Golgonoosa: London and/as the eternal city of art / Mark Lussier; title: London's immortal druggists: pharmaceutical science and business in Romanticism / Thomas H. Schmid; title: Wordsworth's "Illustrated books and newspapers" and media of the city / Peter J. Mannning; title: Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road; title: Tim Fulford.