Writing the materialities of the past : cities and the architectural topography of historical imagination /: cities and the architectural topography of historical imagination. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Writing the materialities of the past : cities and the architectural topography of historical imagination /: cities and the architectural topography of historical imagination. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Writing the materialities of the past : cities and the architectural topography of historical imagination
- Further Information:
- Note: Sam Griffiths.
- Authors:
- Griffiths, Sam
- Contents:
- Introduction: The architectural topography of historical imagination I. Definitions II. Crossing the Rubicon III. Architectural topographic descriptions IV. Figurational contingencies Part I: Contingency in the historiographies of the English reformation, French revolution and era of the industrial revolution in England Chapter 1: Contingency and artifice I. Definitions II. Events of the English Reformation III. Events of the French Revolution IV. Events from the period of the Industrial Revolution in England Chapter 2: Encounter and utterance I. Definitions II. Events of the English Reformation III. Events of the French Revolution IV. Events from the period of the Industrial Revolution in England Chapter 3: Milieu and movement I. Definitions II. The city as ‘environment’ III. The repression of the encounter field in the historiographies of the English Reformation, French Revolution and period of the Industrial Revolution in England IV. The abbreviation, abridgement and metaphorical sublimation of the encounter field Chapter 4: Figure and event I. Definitions II. Spatial stories III. Maps and mapping IV. The figures of events Part II: Writing history as a city Chapter 5: Proximity and distance; Identifying narrative figures in the architectural topographic sequences of archetypal stories I. Definitions II. Social stories III. Architectural topographic sequences and toponemes IV. Narrative figures as architectural topographic sequences Chapter 6: The revolutionary encounterIntroduction: The architectural topography of historical imagination I. Definitions II. Crossing the Rubicon III. Architectural topographic descriptions IV. Figurational contingencies Part I: Contingency in the historiographies of the English reformation, French revolution and era of the industrial revolution in England Chapter 1: Contingency and artifice I. Definitions II. Events of the English Reformation III. Events of the French Revolution IV. Events from the period of the Industrial Revolution in England Chapter 2: Encounter and utterance I. Definitions II. Events of the English Reformation III. Events of the French Revolution IV. Events from the period of the Industrial Revolution in England Chapter 3: Milieu and movement I. Definitions II. The city as ‘environment’ III. The repression of the encounter field in the historiographies of the English Reformation, French Revolution and period of the Industrial Revolution in England IV. The abbreviation, abridgement and metaphorical sublimation of the encounter field Chapter 4: Figure and event I. Definitions II. Spatial stories III. Maps and mapping IV. The figures of events Part II: Writing history as a city Chapter 5: Proximity and distance; Identifying narrative figures in the architectural topographic sequences of archetypal stories I. Definitions II. Social stories III. Architectural topographic sequences and toponemes IV. Narrative figures as architectural topographic sequences Chapter 6: The revolutionary encounter field: Paris c.1789–94 and other stories; how Thomas Carlyle, Simon Schama and Hilary Mantel ‘re-people’ the past I. Definitions II. Imagining the urban encounter field III. Contrasting strategies of architectural topographic description in three narratives of the French Revolution IV. Embodying the past in Carlyle, Schama and Mantel Chapter 7: Recollection and re-enactment; Embodying nineteenth-century Sheffield in leader’s Reminiscences (1875) I. Definitions II. A history of ‘small details’ III. Embodying Sheffield in the text IV. Narrative figures of ‘memory lane’ Chapter 8: Morphologies of feeling ; Contingency and the experience of social change I. Definitions II. ‘The passing of Merrie England’ III. Toponemic disturbances IV. ‘Feeling the change’: reflections on contingency Appendix A: A notation for the architectural topographic sequencing of texts Appendix B: Synopsis of Cinderella Appendix C: additional architectural topographic sequences from Cinderell a Appendix D: Search terms and categories used in toponemic analysis References Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 307.76
Cities and towns -- Social aspects
Cities and towns -- Historiography
Marginality, Social
Hegemony - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780429804052
9780429804069
9780429440786 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138340244
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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