Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem Contributor(s): Preston, Peter (Author), Simpson-Housley, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415106672 ISBN-13: 9780415106672 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $228.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1994 Annotation: Located at the interface of geography and literature, "Writing the City" visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and pains of international novelists and creative writers. From Manchester, Montreal and Sydney to Osaka, Varanasi amd Odessa, cities become mor than their built environment, more than a set of class or economic relationships: they are also an experience to be lived, suffered and undergone. Thus cities are seen in terms of the innocence of an Eden now lost, a threat of sinful Babylon and the promise of a New Jerusalem. |
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BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Social Science | Human Geography |
Dewey: 809.933 |
LCCN: 93044177 |
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.38" W x 9.52" (2.02 lbs) 368 pages |
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Publisher Description: The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'. |