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Romanticism and the city

by Larry H. Peer

Cities and towns in literaturePublic spaces in literatureHistory and criticismRomanticismModern LiteratureLiterature, modern, history and criticism, 19th centuryBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYLiterary

Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.

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