Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-century Paris and LondonUniversity of California Press, 1999 - 323 páginas In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the urban and the domestic. Turning to an element of the cityscape that is thoroughly familiar yet frequently overlooked, Sharon Marcus argues that the apartment house embodied the intersections of city and home, public and private, and masculine and feminine spheres. Moving deftly from novels to architectural treatises, legal debates, and popular urban observation, Marcus compares the representation of the apartment house in Paris and London. Along the way, she excavates the urban ghost tales that encoded Londoners' ambivalence about city dwellings; contends that Haussmannization enclosed Paris in a new regime of privacy; and locates a female counterpart to the fl neur and the omniscient realist narrator--the porti re who supervised the apartment building. |
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Seeing through Paris 18201848 | 17 |
Balzacs Spatial Relations | 51 |
The Haunted London House 18401880 | 83 |
Enclosing Paris 18521880 | 135 |
Zolas Restless House | 166 |
Notes | 199 |
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Photograph Credits | 314 |
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