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Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919 by Yablon
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- Condizione
- Book Title
- Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-
- Publication Date
- 2010-02-01
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9780226946641
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226946649
ISBN-13
9780226946641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72683220
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Untimely Ruins : an Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919
Publication Year
2010
Subject
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, American / General, American / Regional, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), History / General, Sociology / Urban, Subjects & Themes / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, Architecture, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
19.9 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-017799
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
307.760973
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Of Light Bulbs and Bathtubs: Excavating the Modern City 1 Crumbling Columns and Day-Old Ruins: Specters of Antiquity on the American Grand Tour, 1819-1837 2 "Even Eden, you know, ain't all built": Paper Cities, British Investors, and the Ruins of Cairo, Illinois, 1837-1844 3 The Petrified City: Antiquity and Modernity in Melville's New York, 1835-1865 4 Relapsing into Barbarism: Labor, Ethnicity, and Ruin in Prospective Histories of Urban America, 1865-1906 5 "Plagued By Their Own Inventions": Reframing the Technological Ruins of San Francisco, 1906-1909 6 The Metropolitan Life in Ruins: Architectural and Fictional Speculations in New York, 1893-1919 Epilogue Toward the Posthuman Ruin Notes Index
Synopsis
American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of "urban blight" and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation's history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation--from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons-- Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, Untimely Ruins traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America's ruins were often "untimely," appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, Untimely Ruins exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity. The result is a fascinating cultural history that uncovers fresh perspectives on the American city.
LC Classification Number
HT123.Y33 2010
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