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

by Tanya Agathocleous

Book Overview

This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary understandings of realism, modernism, and the transition between them, to show how a range of writers throughout the nineteenth century - including William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, William Morris, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521762642
• ISBN13: 9780521762649
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"