Lost in the American City

ISBN-13: 9780312238407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 234 str.

Jeremy Tambling

Opis

Lost in the American City gives a reading of developments in American urban culture, and analyzes the responses of Dickens (in American Notes ) and Henry James (in The American Scene ) to nineteenth-century and Modernist America, looking at both in light of the fear, expressed by Kafka, of the outsider becoming in America "the man who was never heard of again."

Spis treści

Tales of Several Cities After Dickens: American Notes for General Circulation City Spaces: Martin Chuzzlewit Writing in Reaction: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope James, Trauma, and America The American Scene - I: Building American Houses The American Scene - II: James and New York The American Scene - III: The Past and Future of American Cities The States and the Statue: Kafka on America

O autorze

JERMY TAMBLING is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and has published widely on European literature, and on the nineteenth-century and modernism, including Henry James: Critical Issues .