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Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century

Spaces beyond the Centres
Literary Urban Studies

von: Arunima Bhattacharya, Richard Hibbitt, Laura Scuriatti
128,39 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	13.12.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9783031130601
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century Arunima Bhattacharya (University of Edinburgh), Richard Hibbitt (University of Leeds), Laura Scuriatti (Bard College Berlin).- Part I: Beyond Europe.- 1. Our Alexandria: Our City of Loss May Hawas (The American University in Cairo).- 2. Buenos Aires, Capital of the Spanish-American Nineteenth Century Alejandra Uslenghi (Northwestern University).- 3. Calcutta: The ‘Second City’ of the British Empire Hemlata Giri Loussier (Université d’Aix-Marseille).- 4. Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks Arunima Bhattacharya (University of Edinburgh).- Part II: Defining Peripheries.- 5. War and Feminism: Dublin’s Days of Rabblement Catherine Toal (Bard College Berlin).- 6. Paris and Stockholm in the novels Illusions Perdues by Balzac and The Red Room by August Strindberg Annika Mörte Alling (Lund University).- 7. The Provincial Cosmopolis: Helsinki as Centre and Periphery Philip Bullock (Universityof Oxford).- 8. Bilingual Poets and Multilingual Printing Presses: Pest-Buda in the Early Nineteenth Century Zsuzsanna Varga (University of Glasgow).- 9. Geneva’s Cosmopolitan Vistas: Art and Re-Imagining Nation in fin-de-siècle Franco-Swiss Artistic Exchange Juliet Simpson (Coventry University).- Part III: Polycentric Italy.- 10. Spatial, Cultural and National Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century Trieste Elena Coda (Purdue University).- 11. How to Become Modern in Florence: Another Capital at the Turn of the Century Laura Scuriatti (Bard College Berlin).- 12. The Literary Geopolitics of fin-de-siècle Rome: Foreign Literatures in the Periodical Press Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford).

Autorenportrait

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).

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"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 will use 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<div> </div><div> </div><div>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. 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. <div> </div><div>Arunima Bhattacharya is 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). 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). 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) and the editor of Groups, Coteries, Circles and Guilds: Modernist Aesthetics and the Utopian Lure of Community (2019). </div></div>

Sonderbeitrag

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

Unpublished endorsement

“This volume is an important contribution both to world literary studies and to research on literary place and the nineteenth century. I would say it is indispensable in any course on these fields. Focusing on semi-peripheral cities and their dynamic and complex formation in a great variety of genres, all the chapters offer unique perspectives. Each study can easily be read separately by anyone interested in the different cities and their cultural, social and political contexts as well as by readers fascinated by close literary analysis and formal aspects of the narration of places.” (Annika Mörte Alling, Associate Professor of French Literature, Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway) “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)