Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Tanya (Hunter College, City University of New York) Agathocleous

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.

ISBN-13
9781107663695
ISBN-10
1107663695
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Publication date
2013-12-19
Pages
294
Dimensions
152x229x15
Weight
428