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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818352803321

Autore

Katsaros Laure

Titolo

New York-Paris : Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City / / Laure Katsaros

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

0-472-02870-7

1-283-73318-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

811/.3

Soggetti

Comparative literature - American and French

Comparative literature - French and American

New York (N.Y.) In literature

Paris (France) In literature

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. 133-142) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A call in the midst of the crowd -- This insubstantial pageant -- A portrait of the artist as Parisian prowler -- Dark rooms.

Sommario/riassunto

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization