Apartment Stories : City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London / Sharon Marcus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Sharon, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartment houses--Social aspects--France--Paris--History--19th century.

Apartment houses.

Apartment houses--Social aspects--England--London--History--19th century.

Personal space--England--London--History--19th century.

Personal space.

French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Cities and towns in literature.

Dwellings in literature.

London (England)--History--1800-1950.

London (England).

Paris (France)--History--1789-1900.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 24 figs.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 flâneur and the omniscient realist narrator--the portière who supervised the apartment building.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. Open Houses

1. Seeing through Paris, 1820-1848

2. Balzac’s Spatial Relations

PART TWO. The City and the Domestic Ideal

3. The Haunted London House, 1840-1880

PART THREE. Interiorization and Its Discontents

4. Enclosing Paris, 1852-1880

5. Zola’s Restless House

Notes

Bibliography

Photograph Credits and Permissions

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-313) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520922396

0520922395

9780585079042

0585079048

OCLC:

1224278002