Overview
- Engages with literary works by writers from Anglophone, Francophone, and Spanish traditions
- Focuses on short fiction of the fantastic that exhibited nineteenth-century urban life
- Merges literary analysis with the fields of urban planning, European history, sociology, and gender
Part of the book series: Literary Urban Studies (LIURS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of “urban fantastic” within and across the European traditions studied here.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Patricia García is Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. Her research focuses on narrative spaces and their intersection with urban studies, feminisms and with representations of the supernatural. She coordinates the network Fringe Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections, has directed the project Gender and the Hispanic Fantastic (funded by the British Academy) and has been a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2018-2019) with a EURIAS fellowship. She is a member of Executive Committee of the European Society of Comparative Literature, of the Spanish Research Group on the Fantastic (Grupo de Estudios de lo Fantástico) and of the editorial board of BRUMAL: Research Journal on the Fantastic. Her most notable publications include the monograph Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: the Architectural Void (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature
Book Subtitle: City Fissures
Authors: Patricia García
Series Title: Literary Urban Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83776-1
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 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83775-4Published: 18 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83778-5Published: 19 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83776-1Published: 17 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7888
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature, Cities, Countries, Regions, Urban History, Gender Studies, Urban Studies/Sociology