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100 1 Yablon, Nick,|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 10 Untimely ruins :|ban archaeology of American urban
modernity, 1819-1919 /|cNick Yablon.
264 1 Chicago :|bUniversity of Chicago Press,|c[2009]
264 4 |c©2009.
300 1 online resource (xiii, 380 pages) :|billustrations, maps
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-362) and
index
505 0 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
520 8 This is an extended meditation on the meanings of American
ruins which explains why they are distinctive, what they
reveal, and how they matter
520 American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether
in discussions of urban blight and home foreclosures, in
commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In
this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the
association between American cities and ruins dates back
to a much earlier period in the nation s history.
Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation from failed
banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the
crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science
fiction and cartoons Untimely Ruins challenges the myth
that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in
nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an
American cult of the ruin, Untimely Ruins traces its
deviations as well as derivations from European
conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which
decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired
philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations,
America s ruins were often untimely, appearing
unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an
aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they
stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities,
and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled.
Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives
of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules,
Untimely Ruins exposes crucial debates about the economic,
technological, and cultural transformations known as urban
modernity. The result is a fascinating cultural history
that uncovers fresh perspectives on the American city
588 Description based on print version record
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aYablon, Nick.|tUntimely ruins.|dChicago
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