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The demographic imagination and the nineteenth-century city : Paris, London, New York

Daly, Nicola, 1965-

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\"In this provocative book, Nicholas Daly tracks the cultural effects of the population explosion of the nineteenth century, the 'demographic transition' to the modern world. As the crowded cities of Paris, London and New York went through similar transformations, a set of shared narratives and images of urban life circulated among them, including fantasies of urban catastrophe, crime dramas, and tales of haunted public transport, refracting the hell that is other people. In the visual arts, sentimental genre pictures appeared that condensed the urban masses into a handful of vulnerable figures: newsboys and flower-girls. At the end of the century, proto-ecological stories emerge about the sprawling city as itself a destroyer. This lively study excavates some of the origins of our own international popular culture, from noir visions of the city as a locus of crime, to utopian images of energy and community\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Demographic transition France Paris History / Demographic transition England London History. / Demographic transition New York (State) New York History. / Overpopulation History. / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
• ISBN: 9781107095595, 110709559X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HB887.D35 2015	1	BOOK	BUSINESS