Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century - Tanya (Hunter College Agathocleous - Bog

Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.