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Summary:

Edward J. Ahearn shows that together works from literature and the social sciences can illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Whether viewing Charles Baudelaire alongside Emile Durkheim and Georg Semel or Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" as a challenge to James Q. Wilson's Bureaucracy, Ahearn does justice to the complexity of his subject matter. Ultimately, Ahearn suggests, neither literature nor the social sciences can capture the experience of urban misery.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : Breaking the glass
• I. The heroism of modern life? Baudelaire, Brecht and the founders of urban sociology
• II. Chicago black and white : immigration and race in Native Son and The Adventures of Augie March
• III. Power, governance and the struggle for human realization
• Epilogue : DeLillo's global city.

Author/Creator:

Ahearn, Edward J.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Urban confrontations in literature and social science, 1848-2001: European contexts, American evolutions [by Ahearn, E.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Urban confrontations in literature and social science, 1848-2001 [by Ahearn, E.J.] (Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010 — ISBN 9780754668824; LCCN 2009020926; OCLC Number 366494349)

Subjects:

Literature and society

Sociology, Urban

Social science literature

Poverty in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-224) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 236 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN51 .A33 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780754695387 (electronic bk.)
0754695387 (electronic bk.)
9780754668824 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
0754668827 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

536301308

Other Control Numbers:

EBC476330 (source: MiAaPQ)