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Metropolis on the Styx : the underworlds of modern urban culture, 1800-2001 / David L. Pike.
Author
Pike, David L. (David Lawrence), 1963-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Description
xvii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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TA712 .P55 2007
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Underground areas
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Social aspects
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Underground areas in literature
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Civilization, Subterranean
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Sociology, Urban
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Summary note
"In Metropolis on the Styx,David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean villains, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below. Metropolis on the Styx brings together a rich variety of visual and written sources ranging from pulp mysteries and movie serials to the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and the novels of Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Elinor Glyn to the broadsheets and ephemera of everyday urban life. From these materials, Pike conjures a working theory of modern underground space that explains why our notions about urban environments remain essentially nineteenth-century in character, even though cities themselves have since changed almost beyond recognition."--Publisher description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-356) and index.
Contents
1. Devil, the Underground, and the Vertical City
Underground Metropolis
Modernist Space and Underground Theory
From the Mine to the Trench
Devil above and the Devil below
Devil and the Rhythms of Modern Life
Seasons in Twentieth-Century Hell
Modernism, Memory, and Urban Space
2. Devil Comes to Town
Devil in Paris and London
Devil in Urban Hell
Spectacles of the Metropolitan Devil
His Satanic Majesty's Court
Devil on Crutches
Satanic Verses
Devil Take the Hindmost
Modern Devil
3. Mysteries of the Underground
True Mysteries of the Modern Metropolis Revealed
Sensations of Subterranean London
"If the rich only knew ..."
Afterlife of the Urban Mysteries
Urban Underworlds of Postwar America
4. Through the Looking Glass
Er Ego in Arcadia
Down by the Dark Arches
Passage under the Thames
Foreign Incursions
Arcade Entrenched
Thresholds of Stage and Screen
Threshold of a New Millennium.
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ISBN
9780801444906 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
080144490X ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780801473043 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0801473047 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2007018953
OCLC
124074963
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