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Lost in the American City gives a reading of developments in American urban culture, and analyzes the responses of Dickens (in American Notes ) and Henry James (in The American Scene ) to nineteenth-century and Modernist America, looking at both in light of the fear, expressed by Kafka, of the outsider becoming in America "the man who was never heard of again."
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In this work, Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the 19th century. Dickens visited America in 1842 and his "American Notes" and "Martin Chuzzlewit" set the agenda for future discussions of America. "Lost in American Cities" looks at the Dickens legacy through Henry James in "The American Scene", through H.G. Wells in "The Future in America", and through Kafka, whose novel "America" (or "The Man Who Was Never Heard of Again") tried to re-write Dickens. This volume explores the changes in American 19th century urban culture which made America so different and so impossible to map for the European, and which made American modernity so unreadable and challenging.
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JERMY TAMBLING is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong, and has published widely on European literature, and on the nineteenth-century and modernism, including Henry James: Critical Issues .
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0312238401
- ISBN 13 9780312238407
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages251
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