The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Dana Brand
Cambridge University Press, 1991
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In this publication, Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur, a detached and powerful urban spectator, to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature. Brand then offers his own readings of three of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century, Poe, Hawthorne, and Whitman.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521362078
- ISBN-10
- 0521362075
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1991
- Publication date
- 1991-10-25
- Pages
- 254
- Dimensions
- 237x160x22
- Weight
- 51