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- Will be the definitive resource for students and researchers working in the area of urban literary studies
- A truly interdisciplinary topic
- Will draw on film as well as traditional ‘literature’
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This encyclopedia is an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work includes entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this is the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
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Jeremy Tambling has been Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and at the University of Manchester, UK; and is author of over twenty books on literary and cultural theory, many engaged with cities and urban theory.
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Book title: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies
Editors: Jeremy Tambling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook packages: Living Reference Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62592-8
Number of pages: X, 1791
Number of illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary History, Urban History, Contemporary Literature, Urban Studies/Sociology