Feminism and the Streets: Urban Fiction and the Quest for Female Independence in the Era of Transactional Sexuality

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beauty Bragg ◽  
David Ikard
Keyword(s):  
Urban Fiction

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Anna Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Present Book ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Urban Fiction ◽  
The One

The confidence with which Pritchett wields the multiple photographic metaphors used to describe both the strengths and the flaws of modern fiction suggests an intimacy between the two modes – even if only in terms of goals rather than technique – that was ubiquitous and would have been immediately understood by his readers. The equation of the novelist to ‘the new story camera man’ is striking, but by the mid-1930s there was nothing unusual about such a comparison; it was commonly assumed that what modern novelists were producing, especially when they were writing about cities, was equivalent to modern photography. The aim of the present book has been to elucidate what this proximity between fiction and photography meant in practice, beyond the generalised comparisons. On the one hand, if ‘photography’ is mainly a metaphor for a literary mode, then what kind of a literary lineage can be said to have influenced it? And on the other, what were the affinities between the two art forms, and, crucially, what kind of photography can the period’s urban fiction be said to have resembled or imitated?

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