02972nam 2200673 a 450 991045150490332120200520144314.01-281-14968-397866111496800-19-152731-91-4356-1399-6(CKB)1000000000408200(EBL)415190(OCoLC)437093045(SSID)ssj0000128131(PQKBManifestationID)11137097(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128131(PQKBWorkID)10084718(PQKB)10261865(MiAaPQ)EBC415190(Au-PeEL)EBL415190(CaPaEBR)ebr10212126(CaONFJC)MIL114968(EXLCZ)99100000000040820020070621d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConceiving the city[electronic resource] London, literature, and art 1870-1914 /Nicholas FreemanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-921818-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-230) and index.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; IndexConceiving 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 repreEnglish literatureEnglandLondonHistory and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandHistoryArt and literatureEnglandHistoryEnglish literatureIllustrationsLondon (England)Intellectual lifeLondon (England)In literatureLondon (England)In artElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistory.Art and literatureHistory.English literature820.9/32421Freeman Nicholas907396MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451504903321Conceiving the city2029859UNINA