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题名/责任者:

The city in American literature and culture / edited by Kevin R. McNamara.

出版发行项:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

ISBN:

9781108841962

ISBN:

1108841961

ISBN:

9781108815321

ISBN:

1108815324

载体形态项:

xvi, 399 pages ; 24 cm.

其他载体形态:

Online version: McNamara, Kevin R, 1958- The city in American literature and culture 1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108895262

丛编说明:

Cambridge themes in American literature and culture

丛编统一题名:

Cambridge themes in American literature and culture.

附加个人名称:

McNamara, Kevin R., 1958- editor.

论题主题:

American literature-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Cities and towns in literature.

论题主题:

City and town life in literature.

论题主题:

Cities and towns-Social aspects-United States.

论题主题:

Cities and towns-Political aspects-United States.

论题主题:

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

论题主题:

American literature.

论题主题:

Cities and towns in literature.

论题主题:

Cities and towns-Political aspects.

论题主题:

Cities and towns-Social aspects.

论题主题:

City and town life in literature.

地理名称主题:

United States.

体裁索引词:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

中图法分类号:

I712.06

中图法分类号:

C912.81

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

摘要附注:

"The city's "Americanness" has been disputed from the time of Jefferson's struggle with Hamilton over the new nation's character and its future. At another peak of antiurban sentiment, this volume brings literary and cultural history and criticism to bear on city lives and spaces, engaging a history of promise and struggle as represented literature, film, and visual arts. Drawing on social science to define the urban condition, but as literature does, focusing on the representation and interpretation of experience, the chapter's authors examine the effects of the large and local forces shaping cities and their denizens' lives, and the street-level activity that remakes cultures and group and individual identities. They examine, among other things, city life under conditions of marginalization, uprooting, precarity and, anonymity in the industrial and post-industrial city; and how people construct lives, cultures, and identities within and against the constraints of urban society, as well as by grasping the opportunities to remake the city. The final suite of essays brings the represented city into conversation with contemporary theory allowing each to test the terms of the other"--

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