The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107479449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 290 str.

Nicholas Daly

Opis

Provocative account exploring how a population explosion transformed nineteenth-century European and American culture, creating shared narratives of urban life.

Recenzje

'The scope of Daly's project is commendable, embracing the long nineteenth century through the cultural lenses of England, France, and the United States … In opening the possibility for comparison based on the popularity and afterlife of a cultural text as it invokes various figures of the 'demographic imagination', Daly's project is a delightful engagement with various material and aesthetic cultures of the nineteenth century.' Kathleen Morris, BSLS Reviews (www.bsls.ac.uk)

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Under the volcano: mass destruction; 2. The streets of wherever: French melodrama and Anglophone localization; 3. The ghost comes to town: the haunted city; 4. The frenzy of the legible in the age of crowds; 5. Fur and feathers: animals and the city in an Anthropocene era; Conclusion.