Untimely ruins : an archaeology of American urban modernity, 1819-1919 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yablon, Nick
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Cities and towns > United States > History > 19th century. New York (N.Y.) > In literature. Cairo (Ill.) > History > 19th century. San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 20th century. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Ruins in literature. Ruins in art.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Of light bulbs and bathtubs: excavating the modern city
Crumbling columns and day-old ruins: specters of antiquity on the American grand tour, 1819-1837
"Even Eden, you know, ain't all built": paper cities, British investors, and the ruins of Cairo, Illinois, 1837-1844
The petrified city: antiquity and modernity in Melville's New York, 1835-1865
Relapsing into barbarism: labor, ethnicity, and ruin in prospective histories of urban America, 1865-1906
"Plagued by their own inventions": reframing the technological ruins of San Francisco, 1906-1909
The metropolitan life in ruins: architectural and fictional speculations in New York,1893-1919
Epilogue: Toward the posthuman ruin.