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100	1		_aLehan, Richard Daniel, _d1930-
245	1	4	_aThe city in literature : _ban intellectual and cultural history / _cRichard Lehan
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _cc1998
300			_axvi, 330 p. : _bil. ; _c24 cm
440		0	_aLiterature. _pUrban studies
500			_aÍndice: p. 313-330
500			_aNotas y bibliografía a pie de página
500			_aIn this sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city, Richard Lehan delves into literature, philosophy, and urban history to untangle the contradictory images and meanings of the urban experience. He traces the relationship between literature and the city from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Lehan gathers a rich entourage of support that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler. The European city is read against the decline of feudalism and the rise of empire and totalitarianism, the American city against the phenomenon of the wilderness, the frontier, and the rise of the megalopolis
504			_aBibliografía: p. 293-312
505			_aPt. 1. Reading the City/Reading the Text. -- 1. City and the Text. -- Pt. 2. Enlightenment Legacy.-- 2. From Myth to Mastery. -- 3. City and the Estate. -- Pt. 3. Modernism/Urbanism. -- 4. City of Limits. -- 5. Inward Turn. -- 6. Urban Fantasies. -- 7. Joycity. -- 8. Urban Entropy. -- 9. Beyond Liberalism. -- Pt. 4. American Re-Presentations. -- 10. City and the Wi
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