Writing the City Square: On the History and the Histories of City Squares

The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square as literature is the topic of this book.

This is an encyclopedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with a plethora of analytical examples of its reflection in literature: L...