Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It, Finch 9780367514457 New..

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Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice ItAuthor(s): Jason Finch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367514457, 978-0367514457\nSynopsis\nLiterary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities spatial turn of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS and new directions in the field. \n\nIt outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as tools for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modern, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of actual writers, texts and places. The third unit covers.