T he Ca m br idg e C om pan io n to t he C it y in L it e r at u r e From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. McNamara, Kevin R., 1958– P N 56.C 809′.93321732–dc23 2014002492 ISB N ISB N 978-3-6 Hardback 978-5-0 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URL S for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature / edited by Kevin R. First published 2014 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. Information on this title: © Cambridge University Press 2014 This publication is in copyright. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Mc N AM A R A University of Houston–Clear Lake 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N Y 10013-2473, USA Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. TH E CAMB RI D G E C O MPANI O N TO T H E C ITY IN LI TER ATUR E THE CAMBRIDGE C O M PA N I O N TO THE CITY IN L I T E R AT U R E EDITED BY KEV IN R. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. His work has also been published in the Encyclopedia of American Studies (“The Idea of the City”), A Concise Companion to American Studies (“Regionalism”), and collections edited in the United States, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Turkey. McNamara has published more than twenty articles primarily on cities and urban culture in such journals as Arizona Quarterly, Canadian Review of American Studies, College Literature, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, Interactions, the Journal of Urban History, and Prospects. He is the author of Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities (1996) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles (2010). McNamara is Professor of Literature at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere the affective experience of city life the interplay of the urban landscape and memory the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural, and technological change dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral, and sublime cities cities shaped by colonialism and postcolonialism and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural, and linguistic outsiders. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear.
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