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Don't be misled by the subtitle. This is a big and ambitious book that proposes to collapse the conventional distinction between urban experience and urban interpretation/representation. While rereading familiar texts and images from nineteenth-century New York and Paris, Faflik illuminates patterns of shared perception, structures of collective consciousness, and ordering frames that both comprise and distort modern city life. In the process, he offers students of literature and cultural history a provocatively and deceptively simple category - form - for describing what it is they study. -- David Henkin, author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York With this book, Faflik makes a serious and novel contribution to urban theory. * Choice *

Don't be misled by the subtitle. This is a big and ambitious book that proposes to collapse the conventional distinction between urban experience and urban interpretation/representation. While rereading familiar texts and images from nineteenth-century New York and Paris, Faflik illuminates patterns of shared perception, structures of collective consciousness, and ordering frames that both comprise and distort modern city life. In the process, he offers students of literature and cultural history a provocatively and deceptively simple category - form - for describing what it is they study. -- David Henkin, author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

Don't be misled by the subtitle. This is a big and ambitious book that proposes to collapse the conventional distinction between urban experience and urban interpretation/representation. While rereading familiar texts and images from nineteenth-century New York and Paris, Faflik illuminates patterns of shared perception, structures of collective consciousness, and ordering frames that both comprise and distort modern city life. In the process, he offers students of literature and cultural history a provocatively and deceptively simple category - form - for describing what it is they study--David Henkin, author of City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

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David Faflik is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, he is the author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860 (Northwestern University Press, 2012), Melville and the Question of Meaning (Routledge, 2018), and Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

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