Reading Berlin 1900 / / Peter Fritzsche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Fritzsche, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; Introduction --; 1. The Word City --; 2. Readers and Metropolitans --; 3. Physiognomy of the City --; 4. The City as Spectacle --; 5. Illegible Texts --; 6. Plot Lines --; 7. Other Texts of Exploration --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674037366; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674037366?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Fritzsche.

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.