The City in Literature

Contents: An intellectual and cultural history Reading the city, reading the text; Enlightenment legacy; Modernism, urbanism; American re-presentations; After The Waste Land Lehan presents sharply etched portrayals of the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city , the decline of the landed estate , and the formation of genres - the gothic, the detective narrative, and fantasy literature. Lehan mines disciplines suach as urban studies, architecture, economics and philosophy.