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9780521762649

Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century: Visible City, Invisible World

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    9780521762649

  • ISBN10:

    0521762642

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-02-14
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsp. viii
Acknowledgmentsp. x
Prefacep. xiii
Introduction: Cosmopolitan realismp. 1
The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realismp. 27
The Palace and the periodical: The Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanismp. 29
The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realismp. 69
Cosmopolitan Realism at the 'Fin de Siècle and Beyond
The realist spectator and the romance plot: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanismp. 117
Ethnography and allegory: Socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest Englandp. 145
The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf, and the temporal sublimep. 171
Conclusion: ôA city visible but unseenö: Cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolisp. 202
Notesp. 216
Bibliographyp. 243
Indexp. 258
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