David Faflik

Urban Formalism

The Work of City Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of "reading" the modern metropolis.

Produktdetails

• Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780823287680
• ISBN-10: 0823287688
• Artikelnr.: 57572822

Autorenporträt

David Faflik is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, he is the author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860 (Northwestern University Press, 2012), Melville and the Question of Meaning (Routledge, 2018), and Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Strong Reading, or the Literary Conversion of the Urban 17
2 Reading the Urban Form of Fire 46
3 The Revolutionary Formalism of France 72
4 Photography and the Image of the City 96
Afterword 124
Acknowledgments 127
Notes 131
Bibliography 149
Index 179