Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the 19th Century : - Visible City, Invisible World

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

List of contents

Introduction: cosmopolitan realism; Part I. The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Realism: 1. The palace and the periodical: the Great Exhibition, Cosmopolis, and the discourse of cosmopolitanism; 2. The sketch and the panorama: Wordsworth, Dickens, and the emergence of cosmopolitan realism; Part II. Cosmopolitan Realism at the Fin de Siècle and Beyond: 3. Realist details and romance plots: James, Doyle, and the aesthetics of fin-de-siècle cosmopolitanism; 4. Ethnography and allegory: socialist internationalism and realist Utopia in News from Nowhere and In Darkest England; 5. The moment and the end of time: Conrad, Woolf and the temporal sublime; Conclusion: 'a city visible but unseen': cosmopolitan realism and the invisible metropolis.

About the author

Tanya Agathocleous is Assistant Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Summary

Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.

Product details

• Authors: Tanya Agathocleous, Tanya (Hunter College Agathocleous, Tanya Dr Agathocleous, Agathocleous Tanya
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.12.2013
• EAN: 9781107663695
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66369-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900