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Lost in the American City

Dickens, James, and Kafka

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  • © 2001

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  1. Jeremy Tambling
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Dickens

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 1-23

  3. After Dickens

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 25-47

  4. City Spaces

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 49-75

  5. Writing in Reaction

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 77-99

  6. James, Trauma, and America

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 101-111

  7. The American Scene—I

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 113-132

  8. The American Scene—II

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 133-154

  9. The American Scene—III

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 155-179

  10. The States and the Statue

    • Jeremy Tambling
    Pages 181-198

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 199-234
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About this book

In Lost in the American City , Jeremy Tambling looks at European reactions to America and American cities in the nineteenth-century. Dickens visited America in 1842 and his American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit set the agenda for future discussions of America. Lost in the American City 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. Lost in the American City explores the changes in American nineteenth 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.

About the author

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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