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UNINA9910451504903321 |
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Autore |
Freeman Nicholas |
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Titolo |
Conceiving the city [[electronic resource] ] : London, literature, and art 1870-1914 / / Nicholas Freeman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-14968-3 |
9786611149680 |
0-19-152731-9 |
1-4356-1399-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - England - London - History and criticism |
Literature and society - England - History |
Art and literature - England - History |
English literature |
Electronic books. |
London (England) Intellectual life |
London (England) In literature |
London (England) In art |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Problem of London; 1. 'Inclusion and Confusion': Empiricist London; 2. Shadows and Fog: Impressionist London; 3. 'That untravell'd world': Symbolist London; Afterword; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Conceiving the City looks at how major writers and artists - Henry James, Monet, Whistler - as well as less familiar figures represented London in fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It shows that late-Victorian fin-de-si--egrave--;cle London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art as writers and artists broke with earlier tradition and bent realism into exciting new shapes, from naturalism to impressionism and symbolism. - ;Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, |
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