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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.

Table of Contents

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

Urban Formalism The Work of City Reading

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9780823287680, 978-0823287680
      ISBN10: 0823287688
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      Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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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