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Apartment Stories
Sharon Marcus
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University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
apartment house, spatial relations, gender studies, balzac, 19th century paris, domestic spaces, public and private, city homes, urban and domestic, zola, 19th century french culture, apartment buildings, masculine and feminine, 19th century london, legal debates, urban studies, domestic spheres, haussmannization, 19th century british culture, urban observation, age of great cities, feminism, intersections, city dwellings, haunted london house, open houses, city and home, cityscape, city living, domestic ideal