New kinds of museums in the nineteenth century: the 'cathedrals of urban modernity'

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-47
Author(s):  
J. Pedro Lorente
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Modernity

Bandstands and Modernity: Constructing Spanish Cities Musically

2021 ◽  
pp. 009614422097612
Author(s):  
Gloria Araceli Rodriguez-Lorenzo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Sonic Environment

This article analyses the interplay between sound and urban spaces in Spain, from the end of nineteenth century until 1936. Free outdoor concerts performed by bands in public urban spaces offered a new aural experience audience from across an increasing range of very diverse social groups, almost ritualizing both the practice of listening to music and the spaces in which that music was heard—all at a time when those very spaces were changing, in a way which mirrored the wider reconfiguration and modernization of Spanish cities. Case studies focusing on political, social, and cultural changes in urban spaces are analyzed, in order to understand how cities developed new spaces for social interaction, the modern sonic environment, and the ways in which those cities have appropriated culture for their citizens, as a symbol of urban modernity.

Literary and Historic Flâneuses: Observation, Commentary, Enterprise and Courage in Late-Nineteenth-Century Women’s Professional Lives

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 380-397
Author(s):  
Leo Hall ◽  
Simon Grennan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract Discussions of the conception of that exemplar of late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth century urban modernity, the flâneur, have focused on both critique of the figure’s masculinity and more radical and nuanced conceptions of women’s flânerie. This article considers both the re-gendering and ungendering of flânerie in the character of three flâneuses in fiction published in the 1870s, 1880s and 1910s: Madame Sidonie, Henrietta Stackpole, and Elsie Bengough, and related dissonances and synergies in the career and work of London actress and cartoonist Marie Duval, active 1869–1885. It will argue that changes in types of reading supervened upon the boom in the production and distribution of serial publications during this period, resulting in the embodiment of new female professional identities, relative to both changing experiences of urban life and changing experiences of reading. The article makes a distinction between new ideas of these types of urban professional woman and the development of the identity of the New Woman after 1894. It examines the historic comprehensibility of the fictional flâneuses to readers of Zola, James, and Onions, according to the new opportunities and prohibitions that constituted the lived experiences of the developing urban entertainments industry of the period, in Duval’s comic strips and vignettes in the weekly London magazine Judy, or The London Serio-Comic Journal.

Country Matters: Rural Fiction, Urban Modernity, and the Problem of American Regionalism

2010 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Storey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hamlin Garland ◽  
American Literary History

Mark Storey, "Country Matters: Rural Fiction, Urban Modernity, and the Problem of American Regionalism" (pp. 192––213) This essay intervenes in the critical debates surrounding nineteenth-century American regionalism, arguing that such debates have tended to ignore the possibility of a shared and trans-regional category of "rural fiction." Developing this notion, I suggest that literary representations of rural life in the late nineteenth century are a crucial and neglected way of understanding the geographically indiscrete transformations of urban-capitalist modernity. Further, by examining these transformations through the prism of rural fiction, we can challenge the urban-centric tendency of postbellum American literary history. Drawing on several writers who have been the focus of much of critics' attentions on regionalism (Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, and Sarah orne Jewett in particular), this essay considers both the generic and thematic instabilities of rural fiction, arguing that these instabilities serve to encode and refract the social and cultural context from which this fiction emerges. Reading rural fiction against the background of the increasing similarities between geographically distinct areas of rural life, and reconsidering many of the works that we currently gather under the regionalist rubric as, instead, rural, a distinct perspective can be gained on the standardizing and flattening processes of modernity itself.

scholarly journals Introduction: meat and the nineteenth-century city

Urban History ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-192
Author(s):  
GERGELY BAICS ◽  
MIKKEL THELLE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Food Item ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Space Technology ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Urban Consumption ◽  
Opening Up

ABSTRACT:The articles gathered in this special section explore the complex and layered relationship between meat and the nineteenth-century city. For urban historians interested in food provisioning, meat represents a critical juncture because no other food item was so deeply and, in so many ways, tied to urban modernity. This introduction outlines five central themes of the urban meat nexus: city and country relations, geography and urban space, technology and infrastructure, government and regulation, and changing nutritional standards. The four articles speak to these larger issues in specific and novel ways. They advance the existing scholarship by opening up new questions and approaches, focusing on hitherto understudied locations, while also collectively covering the entire spectrum of meat provisioning from supply hinterlands to urban consumption.

scholarly journals O discurso da modernidade na construção de Vitória-ES

GeoTextos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Cândido Mendonça ◽  
Carlos Teixeira de Campos Júnior
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Class Project ◽  
The City

Este artigo investiga a modernidade na construção da cidade de Vitória na passagem do século XIX para o XX, no qual o Estado atuou como principal promotor dessa tarefa. Para tal investida, a análise partiu do estudo dos fundamentos ideológicos do processo. A conclusão foi a de que as transformações de Vitória foram dominadas pelos interesses ligados à instância mercantil exportadora do capital em detrimento da construção de um projeto coletivo de cidade; e que essa fração do capital se alimentou ideologicamente do signo do moderno para a construção de um projeto de classe, orientado para a via do desenvolvimento comercial, que propôs a produção do moderno por meio da ruptura com o passado colonial da cidade. A perspectiva de análise buscou compreender a produção da modernidade urbana enquanto produção do espaço, e, nessa tarefa, investigar os fundamentos ideológicos que participaram do processo de construção da cidade. Abstract THE DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VITÓRIA-ES This article investigates the modernity in the construction of the city of Vitoria in the passage from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century, in which the State acted as the main promoter of this task . For this purpose, the analysis was based on the study of the ideological foundations of the process. The conclusion was that the transformations of Vitória were dominated by the interests linked to the mercantile-exporting instance of capital, to the detriment of the construction of a collective city project; and that this fraction of capital was ideologically nourished by the sign of the modern for the construction of a class project, oriented towards commercial development, which proposed the production of the modern through a rupture with the colonial past of the city. The perspective of analysis sought to understand the production of urban modernity as a production of space, and in this task, to investigate the ideological foundations that participated in the process of construction of the city.

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