Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading by David Faflik (English) Hardcover Bo

Description: Urban Formalism by David Faflik This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of "reading" the modern metropolis. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to "read" a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity.This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprising the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life. Author Biography David Faflik is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, he is the author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860 (Northwestern University Press, 2012), Melville and the Question of Meaning (Routledge, 2018), and Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020). Table of Contents Introduction | 11 Strong Reading, or the Literary Conversion of the Urban | 172 Reading the Urban Form of Fire | 463 The Revolutionary Formalism of France | 724 Photography and the Image of the City | 96Afterword | 124Acknowledgments | 127Notes | 131Bibliography | 149Index | 179 Review Dont be misled by the subtitle. This is a big and ambitious book that proposes to collapse the conventional distinction between urban experience and urban interpretation/representation. While rereading familiar texts and images from nineteenth-century New York and Paris, Faflik illuminates patterns of shared perception, structures of collective consciousness, and ordering frames that both comprise and distort modern city life. In the process, he offers students of literature and cultural history a provocatively and deceptively simple category - form - for describing what it is they study.---David Henkin, author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York Review Quote With this book, Faflik makes a serious and novel contribution to urban theory. Competing Titles Levine, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, (Princeton, 2017) Daly, The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York (Cambridge, 2015) Steinlight, Populating the Novel: Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life (Cornell, 2018) Feature Invites reflection on the relation between city "reading" and urban being Description for Sales People Invites reflection on the relation between city "reading" and urban being Details ISBN0823288048 Author David Faflik Pages 144 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2020 ISBN-10 0823288048 ISBN-13 9780823288045 Format Hardcover Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle The Work of City Reading Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Series Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies DEWEY 801.95 Short Title Urban Formalism Language English UK Release Date 2020-04-07 Publication Date 2020-04-07 AU Release Date 2020-04-07 NZ Release Date 2020-04-07 US Release Date 2020-04-07 Illustrations 12 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131534371;

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