Untimely ruins
Subtitle: an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919
By: Nick Yablon.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226946634; 9780226946641
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States -- History -- 19th century; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Ruins in literature; Ruins in art; New York (N.Y.) -- In literature; Cairo (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Of light bulbs and bathtubs: excavating the modern city; title: Crumbling columns and day-old ruins: specters of antiquity on the American grand tour, 1819-37; title: "Even Eden, you know, ain't all built": paper cities, British investors, and the ruins of Cairo, Illinois, 1837-44; title: The petrified city: antiquity and modernity in Melville's New York, 1835-65; title: Relapsing into barbarism: labor, ethnicity, and ruin in prospective histories of urban America, 1865-1906; title: "Plagued by their own inventions": reframing the technological ruins of San Francisco, 1906-09; title: The metropolitan life in ruins: architectural and fictional speculations in New York,1893-1919; title: Epilogue: Toward the posthuman ruin.