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This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
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This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
The City in American Literature and Culture
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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
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This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how
The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City
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This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critica