Imagining the City

Name: Imagining the City: v. 1
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Cultural History and Literary Imagination,

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Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural identity. Mobility, fragility, and inventive self-fashioning are common features of life in Europe's big cities throughout the modern period. This volume is based on papers given at the conference 'Imagining the City' held in Cambridge in 2004. Together they examine the city as imagined space and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English, Italian, Russian and North American examples. They analyse modes of literary representation of the city and literary readings of cultural politics; the impact of the imagination of artists and architects on the fashioning of urban landscapes; the effect of new technologies and media (flight, photography, film, and the internet) on urban perception; and the impact of artistic interventions and activist movements on the construction and use of public spaces in the world of today. A second volume will examine the cultural and political moulding of urban space in a similar comparative perspective.

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The Editors: Christian Emden is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Rice University. Educated at the Universities of Konstanz and Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (2000-2003). Catherine Keen is Lecturer in Italian at University College London. After completing doctoral and post-doctoral studies at Cambridge, she lectured in Italian at the Universities of Leeds and Bristol before moving to University College London. David Midgley is Reader in German Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He studied at Oxford (DPhil 1975) and was a Humboldt Scholar in 1979.

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May 15th, 2006

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Catherine Keen
Edited by Christian Emden
Edited by David Midgley

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17 illustrations

Pages

344

Series

Cultural History and Literary Imagination,

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9783039105328

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8158257

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