Tanya Agathocleous
Auteur de George Orwell: Battling Big Brother (Oxford Portraits)
A propos de l'auteur
Tanya Agathocleous is a graduate student at Rutgers University. Her dissertation investigates cosmopolitan visions of the Victorian city. She has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot and written a biography of George Orwell Ann Dean is Assistant Professor of English and Director afficher plus of College Writing at the University of Southern Maine. She teaches and writes about 18th century Anglo-American writing and composition studies afficher moins
Œuvres de Tanya Agathocleous
Oeuvres associées
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1970-12-22
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- US
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
Membres
Critiques
Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination… par Tanya Agathocleous
Agathocleous's monograph has at its center a great idea: the "world-city" concept, the idea that an individual city can stand in for the shape and state of the entire world. She traces this idea's emergence in the nineteenth century, specifically in the form of novels and other writings about London in the genre she dubs "cosmopolitan realism." It's a great idea, well-articulated, especially in the introduction and the first couple chapters, as well as the last one. There's definitely some potential for our understanding of utopian fiction, which Agathocleous mines for a reading of News from Nowhere, but could apply to many more examples beside.… (plus d'informations)
Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
Auteurs associés
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 35
- Popularité
- #405,584
- Évaluation
- 4.3
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 8