Cover; Half-Title; Series Editor; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Approaching the City; Crossings; Questions of Interpretation; Urban Spaces in Travel Studies; The Politics of Poetics; Alternative Modernities; Expectations, Chapter Outlines; Chapter One€€ Producing the City; 1.1€€ Practising Place; 1.2€€ Meaning-Making in the Urban Environment; 1.3€€ Representations of Space I: The 'Figured City'; 1.4€€ Representations of Space II: Constructing Cultural Codes in Architecture; 1.5€€ Representational Spaces: From the 'Figured City' to the Lives of Spaces
1.6€€ Travel as Spatial Practice1.6.1€€ The Inhabitant; 1.6.2€€ Travel and the Traveller; 1.7€€ Reading the City; 1.7.1€€ The Pilgrim; 1.7.2€€ The Educationalist; 1.7.3€€ The Tourist; 1.7.4€€ The Nomad; 1.8€€ Representational Space, Writing the City; 1.8.1€€ Issues of Genre and Modes of Representation; 1.8.2€€ Fiction; 1.8.3€€ Literary Presence; 1.8.4€€ Autobiography; 1.8.5€€ Ethnography; 1.8.6€€ Legislative and Interpretive Modes of Travel; Chapter Two€€ Urban Oppositions: Producing French Space in Nineteenth-Century London; 2.1€€ Modern Babylon; 2.2€€ French Travel Writing and Modernity
2.3€€ Jules Janin's Glass Palace2.4€€ A Worthwhile Revolution; 2.5€€ An English Pilgrimage to a French Past; 2.6€€ Avoiding the Everyday; 2.7€€ Jules Vallès's Topographies of Exile; 2.8€€ Outcast London; 2.9€€ The Great Maw; Chapter Three€€ Revealing and Reconstructing London; 3.1€€ The Secret City: Authentic Spaces and Dark Tourism; 3.2€€ The Guide; 3.3€€ Dark Tourism and Language; 3.4€€ Carceral Spaces and Transparency; 3.5€€ Spaces of Quietude: Leroy's Forgotten London; 3.6€€ Reconstructing London; Chapter Four€€ Wandering Geometry: Order and Identity in New York; 4.1€€ Reading the Grid
4.2€€ Morand's Guide to Modernity4.3€€ The Order of Things; 4.4€€ Framing America: Sartre in New York; 4.5€€ Fragile Homes, Mobile Identities; 4.6€€ Wandering Geometry: Located and Lost; Chapter Five€€ Writing around the Lines: Interpretive Travel Writing; 5.1€€ Georges Perec on Ellis Island; 5.2€€ Monuments and Non-places; 5.3€€ Writing Potential Memory; 5.4€€ Interpretive Travel and Ethical Spaces: Jean Baudrillard's America; 5.5€€ The Ethics of Form; 5.6€€ Without Grounds; 5.7€€ The Perfect Crime; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
Summary
Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French travellers' representations of London and New York from 1851 to the 1980s
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-262) and index
