Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Description:

ix, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Previously published: New York : Columbia University, 1983.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

ISBN:

0801835399
9780801835391
0801835402 (pbk.)
9780801835407 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns in art.
Cities and towns History.
Arts.
Cities and towns in literature.
Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism.
Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.
Villes dans l'art.
Villes Histoire.
Cities and towns
Stadscultuur.
Kunst.
Letterkunde.
Urbanisatie.
Visual arts, 1850-1931. Special subjects: Cities
European literatures, 1800-1980. Special themes: Cities - Critical studies

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Sharpe, William, editor.
Wallock, Leonard, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 31513
Call No.: ID:88-B3351
Status: Available