Writing the Modern City : Literature, Architecture, Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780415591508 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 233 str.

Sarah Edwards; Jonathan Charley; Craig McLean

Opis

This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognisably 'modern' identities in the western world. It focuses on the cultural connections between prose narratives - the novel, short stories, autobiography, crime and science fiction - and a range of urban environments, from the city apartment and river to the colonial house and the utopian city. The book breaks new ground in its exclusive focus on modern narrative and urban space. The essays examine texts and spaces that have both unsettled traditional definitions of literature and architecture and reflected and shaped modern identities: sexual, domestic, professional and national. It is essential reading for students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, cultural geography, art history and architectural history.

Recenzje

This is an ideal foundation text, and one that operates too as a springboard in its breadth as well as its finely detailed analyses. - Review 31

O autorze

Sarah Edwards lectures in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Her publications include articles in Women’s Writing, Journal of Gender Studies, Life Writing, Journal of Popular Culture, Adaptation and Review of English Studies. She is currently completing a monograph, The Edwardians Since 1910, and is the leader of an ESRC seminar series, Nostalgia in the 21st Century (2010–11). Jonathan Charley isDirector of Cultural Studies in the Department of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He studied architecture in London and Moscow and works mainly on the political and social history of buildings and cities.