Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Rethinking Urban Modernity

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Beschreibung des Verlags

Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to transparency, he instead argues for a dynamic interaction between these tendencies. Across two parts, this book addresses a range of apparently disparate buildings and spaces. Part I offers new readings of three writers and their cities: Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester, Charles Dickens and London, and Emile Zola and Paris, focusing on the cellar-dwelling, the railway and river, and the department store respectively. Part II takes a broader view by analysing three spatial forms that have not usually been considered features of nineteenth-century modernity: the Gothic cathedral, the arabesque and white walls. Through these readings, the book extends our understanding of the uneven modernity of this period.

GENRE
Kultur und Unterhaltung
ERSCHIENEN
2023
8. Januar
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
272
Seiten
VERLAG
Edinburgh University Press
GRÖSSE
5,2
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