Alternative modernities in French travel writing : engaging urban space in London and New York, 1851-1986 /: engaging urban space in London and New York, 1851-1986. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gillian Jein.
• Authors: Jein, Gillian, 1978-
• Contents: Cover; Half-Title; Series Editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Approaching the City; Crossings; Questions of Interpretation; Urban Spaces in Travel Studies; The Politics of Poetics; Alternative Modernities; Expectations, Chapter Outlines; Chapter One€€ Producing the City; 1.1€€ Practising Place; 1.2€€ Meaning-Making in the Urban Environment; 1.3€€ Representations of Space I: The 'Figured City'; 1.4€€ Representations of Space II: Constructing Cultural Codes in Architecture; 1.5€€ Representational Spaces: From the 'Figured City' to the Lives of Spaces. 1.6€€ Travel as Spatial Practice1.6.1€€ The Inhabitant; 1.6.2€€ Travel and the Traveller; 1.7€€ Reading the City; 1.7.1€€ The Pilgrim; 1.7.2€€ The Educationalist; 1.7.3€€ The Tourist; 1.7.4€€ The Nomad; 1.8€€ Representational Space, Writing the City; 1.8.1€€ Issues of Genre and Modes of Representation; 1.8.2€€ Fiction; 1.8.3€€ Literary Presence; 1.8.4€€ Autobiography; 1.8.5€€ Ethnography; 1.8.6€€ Legislative and Interpretive Modes of Travel; Chapter Two€€ Urban Oppositions: Producing French Space in Nineteenth-Century London; 2.1€€ Modern Babylon; 2.2€€ French Travel Writing and Modernity. 2.3€€ Jules Janin's Glass Palace2.4€€ A Worthwhile Revolution; 2.5€€ An English Pilgrimage to a French Past; 2.6€€ Avoiding the Everyday; 2.7€€ Jules Vallès's Topographies of Exile; 2.8€€ Outcast London; 2.9€€ The Great Maw; Chapter Three€€ Revealing and Reconstructing London; 3.1€€ The Secret City: Authentic Spaces and Dark Tourism; 3.2€€ The Guide; 3.3€€ Dark Tourism and Language; 3.4€€ Carceral Spaces and Transparency; 3.5€€ Spaces of Quietude: Leroy's Forgotten London; 3.6€€ Reconstructing London; Chapter Four€€ Wandering Geometry: Order and Identity in New York; 4.1€€ Reading the Grid. 4.2€€ Morand's Guide to Modernity4.3€€ The Order of Things; 4.4€€ Framing America: Sartre in New York; 4.5€€ Fragile Homes, Mobile Identities; 4.6€€ Wandering Geometry: Located and Lost; Chapter Five€€ Writing around the Lines: Interpretive Travel Writing; 5.1€€ Georges Perec on Ellis Island; 5.2€€ Monuments and Non-places; 5.3€€ Writing Potential Memory; 5.4€€ Interpretive Travel and Ethical Spaces: Jean Baudrillard's America; 5.5€€ The Ethics of Form; 5.6€€ Without Grounds; 5.7€€ The Perfect Crime; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: London, UK : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 269 pages)
• Subjects: 914.2104/8; French -- Travel -- England -- London -- History; French -- Travel -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Travel writers -- France -- History; Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism; City and town life -- England -- London -- History; City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Spatial behavior -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History; Spatial behavior -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Public spaces -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History; Public spaces -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Français -- Voyages -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire; Français -- Voyages -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire; Écrits de voyageurs français -- Histoire et critique; Vie urbaine -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire; Vie urbaine -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire; Espaces publics -- Aspect social -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire; Espaces publics -- Aspect social -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire; TRAVEL -- Europe -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French; City and town life; French -- Travel; Public spaces -- Social aspects; Travel writers; Travelers' writings, French; England -- London; France; New York (State) -- New York; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1783085142; 9781783085149; 9781783085156; 1783085150
• Related ISBNs: 1783085126; 9781783085125
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-262) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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