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Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 - European Contexts, American Evolutions (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 - European Contexts, American Evolutions (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary
boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with
the writings of social scientists to discover how together they
illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish
separately. Ahearn's argument spans from the second half of the
nineteenth century in Western Europe to the present-day United
States and encompasses a wide range of literary genres and
sociological schools. For example, Charles Baudelaire's essays on
the city are viewed alongside the work of Emile Durkheim and Georg
Simmel; Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of Cities heightens the arguments
of Louis Wirth and Robert Park; Richard Wright's Native Son and
Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March are re-visioned in
tandem with works by William Julius Wilson and others; Herman
Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" poses a challenge to James Q.
Wilson's Bureaucracy; Toni Morrison's historical novel Jazz is
buttressed by the career of Robert Moses and the revisionist work
of historians Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson; and Don
DeLillos's Cosmopolis comes into brilliant focus in the light of
arguments on world cybercities by David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and
Manuel Cassels. Resisting the temptation to ignore contradictions
for the sake of interpretation, Ahearn instead offers the reader a
view of the modern city as complex as his subject matter. Here the
methodologies and knowledge generated by the social sciences are
both complemented and subverted by the experience of city life as
portrayed in literature. With its diverse narrative tactics and
shifting points of view, which can be as disorienting to the reader
as a foreign city is to an arriving immigrant, literature
reinforces the importance of method and outlook in the social
sciences. Ultimately, Ahearn suggests, neither literature nor the
social sciences can capture the experience of urban misery.
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