Reading Berlin 1900

by Peter Fritzsche

Book Overview

The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674748824
• ISBN13: 9780674748828
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"