{"product_id":"invisible-architecture-in-nineteenth-century-literature","title":"Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature","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 Emile 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.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55029906899288,"sku":"9781399508490","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781399508490_dca1a200-865c-45cf-b5b4-24d19bd1042b.jpg?v=1777960849","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/invisible-architecture-in-nineteenth-century-literature","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}