Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity by Moore, Ben

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399508483)

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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity by Moore, Ben

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

$120.00
Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity by Moore, Ben

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 ﾉmile 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.

Author: Ben Moore
ISBN-10: 1399508482
ISBN-13: 9781399508483
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
By Ben Moore
By Ben Moore
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Ben Moore is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. His research areas include nineteenth-century literature, cities, money, modernity, childhood and the human. He is the author of Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 (Palgrave 2023) and Co-Editor of the Gaskell Journal. His work has appeared in journals including Victorian Literature and Culture, Modernism/modernity, Modern Language Review and the Journal of Victorian Culture, as well as in various handbooks and edited collections.

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