Literary texts and buildings have always represented space,
narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of
personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new
forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political
idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City
explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between
literature, architecture and modernity and considers how they have
shaped the world today.
This collection of thirteen original essays examines the ways in
which literature and architecture have shaped a range of
recognisably modern identities. It focuses on the cultural
connections between prose narratives the novel, short stories,
autobiography, crime and science fiction and a range of urban
environments, from the city apartment and river to the colonial
house and the utopian city. It explores how the themes of memory,
nation and identity have been represented in both literary and
architectural works in the aftermath of early twentieth-century
conflict; how the cultural movements of modernism and postmodernism
have affected notions of canonicity and genre in the creation of
books and buildings; and how and why literary and architectural
narratives are influenced by each other s formal properties and
styles.
The book breaks new ground in its exclusive focus on modern
narrative and urban space. The essays examine texts and spaces that
have both unsettled traditional definitions of literature and
architecture and reflected and shaped modern identities: sexual,
domestic, professional and national. It is essential reading for
students and researchers of literature, cultural studies, cultural
geography, art history and architectural history.
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