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Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945

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Description for Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945 Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages, 125. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DDF; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.

The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life.

The metropolis had long been considered a moral underworld of iniquity and dissolution. As the complex drainage systems, underground railways, utility tunnels, and storage vaults of the modern cityscape superseded ... Read more

Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the subterranean obsessions and anxieties within nineteenth-century urban culture. Chapters on the subways, sewers, and cemeteries of Paris and London provide a detailed analysis of these competing centers of urban modernity. A concluding chapter considers the enduring influence of these spaces on urban culture at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801472565
SKU
V9780801472565
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About David L. Pike
David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds, winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, and Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001, both from Cornell.

Reviews for Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800–1945
A triumph. The book is encyclopaedic in scope, never less than an absolute pleasure to read, and boasts a generous selection from the rich field of images related to the topic. The book will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the manifold topics it brings together, and is surely set to become a landmark in the history of ... Read more

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