Overview
- Focuses on non-European cities and provincial European cities
- Extends the period under discussion from the early 1800s to World War I
- Explores the varied political and cultural roles of cities and regions whose status was considered marginal
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles. It shows how different economic, geographical and political factors combined to give each place its own distinctive literary culture and symbolic capital. Taking a geocritical approach, the book shows how its different case studies can be seen as ‘literary capitals’ in terms of their role within the wider nation, region or empire. The volume is divided into three parts. Part One discusses Kolkata, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. Part Two considers ‘semi-peripheral’ European cities: Pest-Buda (Budapest), Helsinki and Dublin. Part Three focuses on cities within Italy: Trieste, Florence and Rome. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts and different genres, the book reads the nineteenth-century literary field as a constellation where different connections can be plotted across various points on the map at different times.
Reviews
“It was a pleasure for me to read this volume, as it composed a multifaceted city in front of my eyes. It reads like an urban kaleidoscope, but its beauty is also that it can be broken into pieces and used in classes. I willuse it in my classes on urbanity and representation, for sure, and am sure it will find a ready public amongst scholars of urban studies, and students of the field, graduate and undergraduate.” (Patrice Nganang, Department of Africana Studies, Chair Stony Brook University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Arunima Bhattacharya is lecturer in English at Edinburgh Napier University. Before this she was a postdoctoral research assistant on an AHRC-funded project, The Other from Within: Indian Anthropologists and the Birth of a Nation (University of Leeds, UK). Her publications include ‘Everyday Objects and Conversations Experiencing “Self” in the Transnational Space’ in Asian Women, Identity and Migration (2020). Her forthcoming monograph is titled Empire’s Metropolis: Calcutta Handbooks and the Making of a Colonial Capital.
Richard Hibbitt is Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include the edited volume Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century: An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space (Palgrave, 2017), the companion piece to Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century: Spaces Beyond the Centres.
Laura Scuriatti is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College, Berlin. She is the author of Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism (2019), the editor of Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (2019), and the co-editor of The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature (2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Spaces beyond the Centres
Editors: Arunima Bhattacharya, Richard Hibbitt, Laura Scuriatti
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13060-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13059-5Published: 14 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13062-5Published: 14 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13060-1Published: 13 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, African Literature, Urban History, Urban Studies/Sociology