This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler...(展开全部)

理查德·利罕（Richard Lehan），美国加州大学洛杉矶分校英文系教授，长期从事英美文学研究，著有《了不起的盖茨比：奇才的局限》、《德莱塞：其人及其作》、《现实主义和自然主义：转折时代的小说》等。利罕同时还是一位历史学家，对“新历史主义“的“理论局限“发表过自己的独特看法，并引起学界关注。

关于作者 安吉拉·卡特（Angela Carter，1940—1992），英国女作家，凭借《染血之室》《马戏团之夜》《焚舟纪》《安吉拉·卡特的精怪故事集》《明智的孩子》等新颖无畏、独树一帜的作品，成为一代人的偶像，被萨尔曼·鲁西迪、伊恩·麦克尤恩、石黑一雄、玛格丽特·阿特伍德等大作家拥戴为一代文学教母。2008年，《泰晤士报》将她列为“1945年以来50位伟大英国作家”第10位。时至今日，她仍是女性主义的象征。 关于译者 曹雷雨，女，四川人，文学博士，北京师范大学外文学院英文系教授。近年致力于文学作品和艺术图书翻译，已出版译著十余部。译有安吉拉•卡特的长篇小说处女作《影舞》（河南大学出版社，2016）。 姜丽，女，山东人，兰州大学英美文学专业硕士，瑞士伯尔尼大学语言学博士。长期在高校从事英语教学工作，有二十多年的翻译经验。

'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. ...(展开全部)

One of the most common--and wounding--misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don't love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literat...(展开全部)

One of the most common—and wounding—misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don’t love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literatur...(展开全部)

In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth century, with which ...(展开全部)

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

Franco Moretti 弗朗哥·莫莱蒂 意大利文学史学家、理论家。1972年毕业于罗马大学现代文学专业，曾于萨莱诺大学和维罗纳大学任教，2000年起任教于斯坦福大学。2014年凭借《远读》荣获“美国国家书评人协会奖”。他创办了小说研究中心和文学实验室，并提出了“世界文学体系”和“远读”两个重要概念。代表作有《布尔乔亚》《远读》《世界之路》《现代史诗》《欧洲小说地图：1800—1900》《表图、地图、树图》等。 译者简介 朱康，文学博士，副教授，毕业于华东师范大学中文系，现任教于华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院，研究方向为中国现当代文学、西方批评理论。著有《现实主义的变奏：当代视域中的文学批评与文化分析》，译有《词语的肉身》（主译）、《根本恶》（合译）、《布尔乔亚》等。