Title: Sketches of the nineteenth century
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.
Subjects: City and town life, Flaneurs, History, Journalism, Press coverage, Social aspects of Journalism, Journalism, social aspects, Journalism, europe, Journalism, history, Social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Media Studies, European history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Reportage & collected journalism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Journalismus, Sketch, Flaneur (Motiv), Stadtleben (Motiv)
Places: Europe
Time periods: 19th century