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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784803803321

Autore

Freeman Nicholas

Titolo

Conceiving the city [[electronic resource] ] : London, literature, and art 1870-1914 / / Nicholas Freeman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-383-03577-6

1-281-14968-3

9786611149680

0-19-152731-9

1-4356-1399-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/32421

Soggetti

English literature - England - London - History and criticism

Literature and society - England - History

Art and literature - England - History

English literature

London (England) Intellectual life

London (England) In literature

London (England) In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,



poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to repre