Language, Discourse, Society: Class, Culture and Mass Housing in London and Paris

Taunton, Matthew

Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from  L'Assommoir  to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-09-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230579767

DOI: 10.1057/9780230244917

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 204