The paper intends to provide a reflection on the role of literary imagination in shaping the identity of the city through a period in which its urban and social environment, as well as its role as a capital, underwent a process of radical redefinition. The second part of the paper focuses in particular, on the was in which women writers addressed the specific challenges that the metropolis presented to them, and to the definition of female subjectivity.

1. Writing the City: Urban Planning, Literary Imagination and Eighteenth-Century London / Carlotta, Farese. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 39-47.

1. Writing the City: Urban Planning, Literary Imagination and Eighteenth-Century London

Carlotta Farese
2014

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The paper intends to provide a reflection on the role of literary imagination in shaping the identity of the city through a period in which its urban and social environment, as well as its role as a capital, underwent a process of radical redefinition. The second part of the paper focuses in particular, on the was in which women writers addressed the specific challenges that the metropolis presented to them, and to the definition of female subjectivity.
2014
Contours of the City. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban Space
39
47
1. Writing the City: Urban Planning, Literary Imagination and Eighteenth-Century London / Carlotta, Farese. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 39-47.
Carlotta, Farese
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