Fictions of the City

Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris
2009. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-57976-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Language, Discourse, Society

Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from  L'Assommoir  to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taunton, Matthew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Haussman's Paris and the Immeuble The London Suburbs The Rise of the Parisian Banlieue The London Council Estate Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MATTHEW TAUNTON has taught at University College London, Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, Central St Martins and the Open University, UK. His research interests lie in British and French literature from the nineteenth century to the present, urban studies, media history and film. His journalism appears in the and the .