Visions of the modern city
Subtitle: essays in history, art, and literature : proceedings of the Heyman Center for the Humanities
By: edited by William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock
Contributors: Heyman Center for the Humanities
Publisher: Columbia University, Heyman Center for the Humanities
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York, N.Y. (Heyman Center for the Humanities, Box 100, Central Mail Room, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Urban Sociology; Arts and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From "great town" to "nonplace urban realm" / William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock; title: The nature of urbanization / Eric E. Lampard; title: Dickens and the city / Philip Collins; title: The social explorer as anthropologist / Deborah Epstein Nord; title: Manet and the Paris of Haussmann and Baudelaire / Theodore Reff; title: Painters of modern life : Baudelaire and the impressionists / Michele Hannoosh; title: Culture and architecture / Thomas Bender and William R. Taylor; title: Tokyo and the borders of modern Japanese fiction / Paul Anderer; title: Reading the illegible : some modern representations of urban experience / Steven Marcus.