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Urban Revelations: Cities, Homes, and Other Ruins in American Literature, 1790-1860 - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Donald J. McNutt 1st edition
Urban Revelations: Cities, Homes, and Other Ruins in American Literature, 1790-1860 - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Donald J. McNutt
Reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural impermanence. This book provides different ways of reading the relationships among urban culture, ruin, concepts of instability, and the formation of American literature.
216 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 3, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415976404 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 550 g |
| Language | English |