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The City in Literature
By:Richard Lehan
Published on 1998-04-01 by Univ of California Press

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This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler. The European city is read against the decline of feudalism and the rise of empire and totalitarianism; the American city against the phenomenon of the wilderness, the frontier, and the rise of the megalopolis and the decentered, discontinuous city that followed. Throughout this book, Lehan pursues a dialectic of order and disorder, of cities seeking to impose their presence on the surrounding chaos. Rooted in Enlightenment yearnings for reason, his journey goes from east to west, from Europe to America. In the United States, the movement is also westward and terminates in Los Angeles, a kind of land's end of the imagination, in Lehan's words. He charts a narrative continuum full of constructs that |represent| a cycle of hope and despair, of historical optimism and pessimism. Lehan presents sharply etched portrayals of the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city, the decline of the landed estate, and the formation of the gothic; and of the emergence of the city and the appearance of other genres such as detective narrative and fantasy literature. He also mines disciplines such as urban studies, architecture, economics, and philosophy, uncovering material that makes his study a lively read not only for those interested in literature, but for anyone intrigued by the meanings and mysteries of urban life.

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Colm Tóibín, the award-winning article writer of This Professionaland Brooklyn, changes an individual's attention at the advanced romances between daddies in addition to sons—particularly these worries concerning the literary titans Oscar Wilde, Louis Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and even its fathers. Wilde loathed his / her pop, even though regarded them to be a great deal alike. Joyce's gregarious pops owned his particular toddler out of Ireland because of his volatile temper and then drinking. At the same time Yeats's papa, the latest electrician, was initially it seems like a marvelous conversationalist whose yakety-yak is additional milled compared to a work the person produced. A majority of these popular men of all ages and also the fathers what people helped contour individuals can be bought with your life around Tóibín's retelling, as will Dublin's colourful inhabitants.

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