Download or read book Romanticism and the City written by L. Peer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large.