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Author Freeman, Nicholas.

Title Conceiving the city : London, literature, and art 1870-1914 / Nicholas Freeman.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-230) and index.
Contents The problem of London -- Inclusion and confusion: empiricist London -- Shadows and fog: impressionist London -- That untravell'd world: symbolist London.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Summary Conceiving the City looks at how major writers and artists - Henry James, Monet, Whistler - as well as less familiar figures represented London in fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It shows that late-Victorian fin-de-si--egrave--;cle London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art as writers and artists broke with earlier tradition and bent realism into exciting new shapes, from naturalism to impressionism and symbolism. - ;Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to repre.
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Subject English literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism.
English literature.
England -- London.
Literature and society -- England -- History.
Literature and society.
England.
History.
Art and literature -- England -- History.
Art and literature.
English literature -- Illustrations.
English literature -- Illustrations.
London (England) -- Intellectual life.
London (England) -- In literature.
London (England) -- In art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Art.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Illustrated works.
Pictures.
Pictures.
Other Form: Print version: Freeman, Nicholas. Conceiving the city. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199218189 0199218188 (DLC) 2007025935 (OCoLC)137312944
ISBN 9781435613997 (electronic book)
1435613996 (electronic book)
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0191527319 (electronic book)
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