Taunton Matthew:
Fictions Of The City
Class, Culture And Mass Housing In London And Paris
Palgrave Macmillan (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 280 pages
Size: 222x141 mm
ISBN: 9780230579767
ISBN-10: 0230579760
List price: £55.00
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Fictions Of The City
Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.
