{"product_id":"9781399508490-invisible-architecture-in-nineteenth-century-literature-rethinking-urban-modernity","title":"Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRethinking Urban Modernity\u003cbr\u003eRethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city\u003cbr\u003eBen Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to transparency, he instead argues for a dynamic interaction between these tendencies. Across two parts, this book addresses a range of apparently disparate buildings and spaces. Part I offers new readings of three writers and their cities: Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester, Charles Dickens and London, and Emile Zola and Paris, focusing on the cellar-dwelling, the railway and river, and the department store respectively. Part II takes a broader view by analysing three spatial forms that have not usually been considered features of nineteenth-century modernity: the Gothic cathedral, the arabesque and white walls. Through these readings, the book extends our understanding of the uneven modernity of this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55495711031670,"sku":"9781399508490","price":25.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41659726_61f3e3db-93d3-4ab2-94f4-136a24bb2d38.jpg?v=1781787516","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399508490-invisible-architecture-in-nineteenth-century-literature-rethinking-urban-modernity","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}