Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mitsi, Efterpi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Despotopoulou, Anna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dimakopoulou, Stamatina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Aretoulakis, Emmanouil (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: British literature.; America-Literatures.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; British and Irish Literature.; North American Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial modernity with studies of Charles Dicken...