Sketches of the Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: European Journalism and Its <I>Physiologies</I>, 1830-50
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: June 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780230518032
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Literary studies: 19th century; Other prose: 19th century; Law Of The Press; Press And Society; Language Arts & Disciplines; History - General History; Language; Europe - General; European - General; Modern - 19th Century; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Journalism; 19th century; City and town life; Europe; Flaneurs; History; Press coverage; Social aspects
Description: "Taking issue with Walter Benjamin's critique of the flaneur and of feuilleton writing about the city, this new study reveals the central significance of metropolitan sketches within nineteenth-century culture. As a dynamic form of cognition, sketches transform models of visual and printed media (panorama and encyclopedia) and of life science (physiology) into a kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity."--BOOK JACKET.