Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature : Rethinking Urban Modernity PDF
by Ben Moore
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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.
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- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:08/01/2023
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- ISBN:9781399508506
