The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
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Author:
| Brand, Dana |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-36207-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1991 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $150.95 |
Book Description:
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In this publication, Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur, a detached and powerful urban spectator, to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature. Brand then offers his own readings of three of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century, Poe, Hawthorne, and Whitman.
In this publication, Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur, a detached and powerful urban spectator, to seventeenth-century English literature and to nineteenth-century American literature. Brand then offers his own readings of three of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century, Poe, Hawthorne, and Whitman.