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