Cities in Literature with Theo Theoharis

What role have cities have played in literature? Theo Theoharis, who teaches literature at Harvard, walks us through the question, starting in ancient Troy with Homer's Iliad, then to the Rome of Augustus (The Aeneid), then Dante's medieval Florence and the Divine Comedy, next into Dickens 19th century London and James Joyce's Dublin of 1904, and finally into later 20th century suburban New Jersey with Philip Roth. And we conclude with the great question, "Is the novel dead?"