{"product_id":"invisible-architecture-in-nineteenth-century-literature-rethinking-urban-modernity-9781399508483","title":"Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity","description":"Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls 'invisible architecture'. Resisting narratives of the nineteenth-century as progressing from concealment to transparency, he instead argues for a dynamic interaction between these tendencies. Across two parts, this book addresses a range of apparently disparate buildings and spaces. Part I offers new readings of three writers and their cities: Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester, Charles Dickens and London, and Émile Zola and Paris, focusing on the cellar-dwelling, the railway and river, and the department store respectively. Part II takes a broader view by analysing three spatial forms that have not usually been considered features of nineteenth-century modernity: the Gothic cathedral, the arabesque and white walls. Through these readings, the book extends our understanding of the uneven modernity of this period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Moore is Assistant Professor in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. His research areas include nineteenth-century literature, cities, money, modernity, childhood and the human. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHuman Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850-1895\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave 2023) and Co-Editor of the \u003ci\u003eGaskell Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in journals including \u003ci\u003eVictorian Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eModernism\/modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eModern Language Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Victorian Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in various handbooks and edited collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50522734035218,"sku":"9781399508483","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c156269-10d7-42f4-9b88-9df4633e3f4a.jpg?v=1731121155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/invisible-architecture-in-nineteenth-century-literature-rethinking-urban-modernity-9781399508483","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}