Download or read book Fictions of the City written by Matthew Taunton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many studies of fictions of city life take the flâneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.