Fictions of the City Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris
Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to imag...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2009, 2009
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| Series: | Language, Discourse, Society
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city |
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| Physical Description: | VI, 204 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230244917 |