Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

by Andreas Huyssen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416724
• ISBN13: 9780674416727
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"