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.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Haussman’s Paris and the Immeuble The London Suburbs The Rise of the Parisian Banlieue The London Council Estate Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
About the author
MATTHEW TAUNTON has taught at University College London, Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, Central St Martins and the Open University, UK. His research interests lie in British and French literature from the nineteenth century to the present, urban studies, media history and film. His journalism appears in the
New Statesman and the
Times Literary Supplement.
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