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The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City - Paris, London, New York (Hardcover)
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The Demographic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City - Paris, London, New York (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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.
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