Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Part One
• The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
• Dante's Worlds
• Chaucer's England
• Shakespeare's Stratford and London
• Montaigne's France
• Cervantes' Spain
• The Discovery of the New World: Arcadia and Utopia
• Part Two
• The Age of Reason
• The France of the Enlightenment
• The Journeys of the Age of the Novel
• Eighteenth Century London
• Eighteenth Century Dublin
• Eighteenth Century Edinburgh and Scotland
• Part Three
• The Romantics
• The Lake District of the Romantics
• The Romantics Abroad
• Jane Austen's Regency England
• The Paris of the French Romantics
• Weimar and the German Romantics
• Washington Irving's Europe
• James Fenimore Cooper's Frontier
• Part Four
• The Age of Industrialism and Empire
• The Sleeping Giant: Pushkins, Gogol's and Dostoeveky's St Petersburg
• Stendhal's Balzac's and Sand's France
• Dicken's London
• Steaming Chimneys: Britain and Industrialism
• Wild Yorkshire
• The Brontes of Haworth
• Emerson's and Hawthorne's New England
• Dreaming Spires: Nineteenth Century Oxford and Cambridge
• Part Five
• The Age of Realism
• Mark Twin's Mississippi
• The South, Slavery and the Civil War
• Paris as Bohemia
• The European Apple: Henry James's International Scene
• Thomas Hardy's Wessex
• Scandinavia: The Dark and the Light
• Precipitous City: Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh
• London in the 1890's
• Dreams of Empire
• The Irish Revival
• Chicago's World Fair
• Part Six
• The Modern World
• Wittgenstein's Vienna
• Kafka's Prague
• Writers of the Great War
• Paris in the Twenties
• The World of Bloomsbury
• Berlin: The Centre of German Modernism
• Greenwich Village
• Harlem's Renaissance
• Main Street USA
• William Faulkner's New South
• Writer's Hollywood
• Depression America
• Depression Britain
• The Spanish Civil War
• Writers go to War
• Part Seven
• After the Second World War
• Existentialist Paris and Beyond
• Germany After the War
• Post-war Italian Fiction
• London if the Fifties
• Scenes from Provincial Life
• Broadway
• Dylan Thomas's Wales
• The Beat Generation
• Cold War Tales
• Part Eight
• The World Today
• Russia and Eastern Europe After the Second World War
• The Fantasywallas of Bombay
• Japan: Land of Spirits of the Earth
• Campus Fictions
• Divided Ireland
• The Writing of the Caribbean
• Australian Images: Sydney and Melbourne
• Contemporary Israeli Writing
• In Search of Andalusia: Arabic Literature Today
• South African Stories
• Latin American Writing: A Literary Heritage Explored
• The Writing of Africa Today
• Canadian Images
• Everywhere the Wind Blows: African-American Writing Today
• Manhattan Tales: Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
• "This Grey but Cold City" The Glasgow of Gray and Kelman
• London: The Dislocated City
• The World After the Wall
• Authors and their works
• Places to visit
• Further Reading
• Index
• Picture Credits and Acknowledgements