Screen LibraryThe demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city : Paris, London, New York /
"In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narra...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
97 |
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| Summary: |
"In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the hell that is other people. In the visual arts, sentimental genre pictures appeared that condensed the urban masses into a handful of vulnerable figur "In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly, tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107095595 110709559X |
| Index Number: | HB887 |
| CLC: | C924.1 |
| Call Number: | C924.1/D153 |
| Contents: | 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. |