Imagined Cities

Imagined Cities

Robert Alter • Yale University Press

ISBN-10: 030017554X · ISBN-13: 978‑0300175547 · 2010

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Robert Alter examines the evolution of the urban landscape in literature, tracing how the rapid expansion of nineteenth-century cities fundamentally altered the narrative imagination. By analyzing works from authors such as Dickens, Bely, and Calvino, the text explores the shift from the city as a physical setting to a complex, symbolic construct that reflects the psychological and social anxieties of modernity.

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