Reading Berlin 1900

Reading Berlin 1900

Hardback (03 May 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Döblin. This sumptuous history of a metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exuberant and fleeting moment in history.

Book information

ISBN: 9780674748811
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 073.155
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 308
Weight: 570g
Height: 215mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 25mm