Imagined Cities

by Robert Alter

Book Overview

In Imagined Cities, Robert Alter traces the arc of literary development triggered by the runaway growth of urban centers from the early nineteenth century through the first two decades of the twentieth. As new technologies and arrangements of public and private space changed the ways people experienced time and space, the urban panorama became less coherent--a metropolis defying traditional representation and definition, a vast jumble...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030017554X
• ISBN13: 9780300175547
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"