Cities and Literature

by Malcolm Miles

Book Overview

This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from urban cultural and critical theories.

Cities and Literature shows how literature frames real and imagined constructs and experiences of cities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138219533
• ISBN13: 9781138219533
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"