Lost in the American City

Dickens, James, and Kafka

J. Tambling (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2001 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-38651-2 (ISBN)

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In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century. Dickens visited America in 1842 and his American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit set the agenda for future discussions of America. Lost in the American City looks at the Dickens legacy through Henry James in The American Scene , through H.G. Wells in The Future in America , and through Kafka, whose novel America (or The Man Who Was Never Heard of Again ) tried to re-write Dickens. Lost in the American City explores the changes in American nineteenth century urban culture which made America so different and so impossible to map for the European, and which made American modernity so unreadable and challenging.

JERMY TAMBLING is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and has published widely on European literature, and on the nineteenth-century and modernism, including Henry James: Critical Issues .

Tales of Several Cities After Dickens: American Notes for General Circulation City Spaces: Martin Chuzzlewit Writing in Reaction: Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope James, Trauma, and America The American Scene - I: Building American Houses The American Scene - II: James and New York The American Scene - III: The Past and Future of American Cities The States and the Statue: Kafka on America

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 234 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Charles Dickens • Culture • Henry James • Novel
ISBN-10	1-349-38651-0 / 1349386510
ISBN-13	978-1-349-38651-2 / 9781349386512
Zustand	Neuware