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Miniature Metropolis

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Miniature Metropolis

By Andreas Huyssen

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About the book

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe's modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures-short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature Metropolis explores the history and theory of this significant but misrecognized achievement of literary ...Show more

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9780674416727

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2015

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Edition

1

Original title

Miniature Metropolis

Format

Hardcover

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