Main entry:

Lehan, Richard Daniel, 1930- author.

Title & Author:

The city in literature : an intellectual and cultural history / Richard Lehan.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
©1998

Description:

xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312) and index.
The City and the Text -- From Myth to Mastery -- The City and the Estate -- City of Limits -- The Inward Turn -- Urban Fantasies -- Joycity -- Urban Entropy -- Beyond Liberalism -- The City and the Wilderness -- The Urban Frontier -- Urban Powers -- Urban Destiny -- The Urban Vortex -- Quest West -- From Myth to Mystery.

Summary:

"In this sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city, Richard Lehan delves into literature, philosophy, and urban history to untangle the contradictory images and meanings of the urban experience. He traces the relationship between literature and the city from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Lehan gathers a rich entourage of support that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler. The European city is read against the decline of feudalism and the rise of empire and totalitarianism, the American city against the phenomenon of the wilderness, the frontier, and the rise of the megalopolis."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0520210425 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780520210424 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0520212568 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520212565 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0585047820
9780585047829

Subject:

Cities and towns in literature.
Literature, Modern History and criticism.
Villes dans la littérature.
Littérature Histoire et critique.
Literature, Modern
Stadt
Literatur
Steden.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Littérature moderne Histoire et critique.
Urbanisme.
Architecture et littérature.
Villes Dans la littérature.
Poésie des lieux.
Symbolisme dans l'urbanisme.
Ville.
Thème littéraire.
Vie urbaine.
Stadt <Motiv>

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212015
Call No.: PN56.C55 L4 1998
Status: Available