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Sketches of the nineteenth century

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"Taking issue with Walter Benjamin's critique of the flaneur and of feuilleton writing about the city, this new study reveals the central significance of metropolitan sketches within nineteenth-century culture. As a dynamic form of cognition, sketches transform models of visual …

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"Taking issue with Walter Benjamin's critique of the flaneur and of feuilleton writing about the city, this new study reveals the central significance of metropolitan sketches within nineteenth-century culture. As a dynamic form of cognition, sketches transform models of visual and printed media (panorama and encyclopedia) and of life science (physiology) into a kind of sociology, presenting a self-critique of the middle class on the brink of industrial modernity."--BOOK JACKET.

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""Taking issue with Walter Benjamin's critique of the flaneur and of feuilleton writing about the city, this new study reveals the central significance of metropolitan sketches within nineteenth-century culture. As …"

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