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[headline]Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city 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 Émile 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. [bio]Ben Moore is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He is the author of
Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895 (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.
A propos de l'auteur
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.
