عنوان

The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city :

شابک

110709559X

شابک

9781107095595

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Paris, London, New York /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Nicholas Daly.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

ix, 272 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm.

عنوان فروست

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;

مشخصه جلد

97

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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 figures: newsboys and flower-girls. At the end of the century, proto-ecological stories emerge about the sprawling city as itself a destroyer. This lively study excavates some of the origins of our own international popular culture, from noir visions of the city as a locus of crime, to utopian images of energy and community"--

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Demographic imagination and the 19th century city

موضوع مستند نشده

Demographic transition-- England-- London-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Demographic transition-- France-- Paris-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Demographic transition-- New York (State)-- New York-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Overpopulation-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Demographic transition.

موضوع مستند نشده

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

موضوع مستند نشده

Overpopulation.

موضوع مستند نشده

England, London.

موضوع مستند نشده

France, Paris.

موضوع مستند نشده

New York (State), New York.

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

شماره رده

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Daly, Nicholas

تاريخ عمليات

20150604043500.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y