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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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).
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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
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
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