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

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Daly is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at the School of English, Drama and Film, University College Dublin. He is the author of Modernism, Romance, and the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Literature, Technology and Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Klappentext Provocative account exploring how a population explosion transformed nineteenth-century European and American culture, creating shared narratives of urban life. Zusammenfassung Nicholas Daly offers a lively and provocative account of the transformation of culture by the population explosion of the nineteenth century. Finding examples in everything from ghost stories to opera to fashion! Daly shows how narratives and images of crowded city life circulated among Paris! London and New York. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Daly, Nicholas (University College Dublin) Daly, Daly Nicholas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107479449
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47944-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, France, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history