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Title Visions of the modern city : essays in history, art, and literature / edited by William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX650.C66 V57 1987    Available  ---
Description ix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note Previously published: New York : Columbia University, 1983.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents From "Great town" to "Nonplace urban realm" : reading the modern city / William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock -- The nature of urbanization / Eric E. Lampard -- Dickens and the city / Philip Collins -- The social explorer as anthropologist : Victorian travellers among the urban poor / Deborah Epstein Nord -- Manet and the Paris of Haussmann and Baudelaire / Theodore Reff -- Painters of modern life : Baudelaire and the Impressionists / Michele Hannoosh -- Culture and architecture : some aesthetic tensions in the shaping of modern New York City / Thomas Bender and William R. Taylor --Tokyo and the borders of modern Japanese fiction / Paul Anderer -- Reading the illegible : some modern representations of urban experience / Steven Marcus.
Provenance Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection
Subject Cities and towns in art.
Cities and towns in art.
Cities and towns -- History.
Cities and towns.
History.
Arts.
Arts.
Indexed Term Visual arts, 1850-1931. Special subjects: Cities
European literatures, 1800-1980. Special themes: Cities - Critical studies
Added Author Sharpe, William.
Wallock, Leonard.
ISBN 0801835399
9780801835391
0801835402 paperback
9780801835407 paperback