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Sketches of the Nineteenth Century

European Journalism and Its <I>Physiologies</I>, 1830-50

By Martina Lauster

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Publish Date

June 12, 2007

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan,Springer

Language

eng

Pages

375

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.