Flaubert
the demise of the spectator
Flaubert
urban poetics
Dickens
the realism of metaphor
Dickens
intimations of apocalypse
Bely
phantasmatic city
Woolf
urban pastoral
Joyce
metropolitan shuffle
Kafka
suspicion and the city.
Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel by Robert Alter. ISBN 0300108028. Published by Yale University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.