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



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Autore: Freeman Nicholas Visualizza persona
Titolo: Conceiving the city [[electronic resource] ] : London, literature, and art 1870-1914 / / Nicholas Freeman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/32421
Soggetto topico: English literature - England - London - History and criticism
Literature and society - England - History
Art and literature - England - History
English literature
Soggetto geografico: London (England) Intellectual life
London (England) In literature
London (England) In art
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
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ISBN: 1-383-03577-6
1-281-14968-3
9786611149680
0-19-152731-9
1-4356-1399-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784803803321
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