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Lost in the American City Dickens, James, and Kafka

Lost in the American City Dickens, James, and Kafka

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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."

Keywords

Literary CriticismEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

2001Book

Author(s)Jeremy Tambling

PublisherPalgrave

ISBN9780312238407

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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