Urban formalism : the work of city reading /
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 ""read...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2020
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | Polis (Fordham University Press)
Polis (Fordham University Press) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Strong Reading, or the Literary Conversion of the Urban
- 2 Reading the Urban Form of Fire
- 3 The Revolutionary Formalism of France
- 4 Photography and the Image of the City
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index