Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-230) and index.
The problem of London -- Inclusion and confusion: empiricist London -- Shadows and fog: impressionist London -- That untravell'd world: symbolist London.
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Conceiving the City looks at how major writers and artists - Henry James, Monet, Whistler - as well as less familiar figures represented London in fiction, poetry, essays, and art. It shows that late-Victorian fin-de-si--egrave--;cle London emerged as a focus for dynamic, explicitly modern art as writers and artists broke with earlier tradition and bent realism into exciting new shapes, from naturalism to impressionism and symbolism. - ;Conceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painters, and theoreticians attempted to repre.
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Conceiving the city.
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Art and literature-- England-- History.
English literature-- England-- London-- History and criticism.