Romanticism and the City

Book Overview

Introduction; L.H.Peer PART I: THEORIES OF THE CITY Nerve Theory, Sensibility, and Romantic Metrosexuals; M.Faubert Wordsworth's Double-Take; W.Galperin The Lost Transatlantic City of John Galt's 'The Apostate'; J.Cass The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader; D.L.Hoeveler Science and the City; M.Gaull PART II: CONTINENTAL CITIES Phenomenal Beauty: Rousseau in Venice; N.Yousef E. T. A. Hoffmann's Marketplace Vision of Berlin; A.Schlutz Renzo in Milan; E.Livorni Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol's Romantic Vision of the Eternal City; T.Barnett PART III: LONDON Wordsworth's Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of 'The Prelude' (1805); E.Stelzig Blake's Golgonoosa: London and/as the Eternal City of Art; M.Lussier London's Immortal Druggists: Pharmaceutical Science and Business in Romanticism; T.H.Schmid Wordsworth's 'Illustrated Books and Newspapers' and City Media; P.Manning Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road; T.Fulford

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349291668
• ISBN13: 9781349291663
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"