Back to results
Cover image for book Fictions of the City

Fictions of the City

Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris
By:Matthew Taunton
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230579767
eText ISBN:9780230244917
Edition:0
Copyright:2009
Format:Page Fidelity

eBook Features

Instant Access

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Offline

Access your eTextbook anytime and anywhere

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur 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.