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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Main Author:	Taunton, Matthew (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:	Language, discourse, society.
Subjects:	Literature. Cultural History. Cultural Theory. European History. Film History. Film and Television Studies. Literary Theory. Civilization > History. Culture > Study and teaching. Literature > Philosophy. Motion pictures and television. Motion pictures > History. Europe > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book