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Author_Peter Fritzsche
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Product details
- ISBN 9780674748828
- Weight: 372g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 1998
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Döblin. This sumptuous history of a metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exuberant and fleeting moment in history.
Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
