Untimely Ruins

An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819-1919

Autor: Nick Yablon

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: The University of Chicago Press

Dostupnost: Očekávaný dotisk

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American urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures,...

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Autor

Nick Yablon

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2010

Stránek

416

EAN

9780226946634

Enbook ID

04550749

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

680

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 30

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American urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9/11, or postapocalyptic movies. Nick Yablon argues that this association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation's history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation - from accounts of failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to popular fiction and cartoons that envisioned disintegrating skyscrapers and bridges - Yablon challenges the myth that ruins were absent or at least insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the past, American ruins often appeared unpredictably and disappeared before they could accrue an aura of age. In doing so, they generated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the new kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative depictions of these untimely ruins everywhere from the archives of photography clubs to the pages of pulp magazines, Yablon reconstructs crucial debates about America's economic, technological, and cultural transformation in an age of urban modernity.

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