The Knowable City: An Outline of Urban Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Taking a cue from Asa Briggs’s observation that one of the greatest Victorian technical and social achievements was “the networks of pipes and drains and sewers”, this paper, first of all, considers how this sanitary project can be seen as part of a sweeping technological and administrative movement in conceptualizing the modern city. By the modern city, the paper refers to the way in which some of the most recurrent political concerns and technological ideas set in the sanitary discourse organize a comprehensive frame of social analysis rendering the city fully transparent and knowable. Secondly, the paper argues that the knowability of the modern city stands analogous to the novelistic tendency to adjust fictional personage with respect to environmental shifts in the context of 19th-century European urban modernization. To afford the adjustable category of fictional characters, major urban writers like Balzac and Dickens continued to adopt and experiment with a broad range of scientific or technological discourses as the deterministic frame of urban topography outlining an equally deterministic, measurable set of human behaviors and consequences. The final point of the paper is how the overarching sense of abstraction and measurability with which to facilitate the uniformity of spatial features in urban fiction creates an impression that human experiences are all homogeneous across local or national barriers. Underlying this impression is the erosion of temporality lodged in the way in which the characters view their experiences.
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Taking a cue from Asa Briggs’s observation that one of the greatest Victorian technical and social achievements was “the networks of pipes and drains and sewers”, this paper, first of all, considers how this sanitary project can be seen as part of a sweeping technological and administrative movement in conceptualizing the modern city. By the modern city, the paper refers to the way in which some of the most recurrent political concerns and technological ideas set in the sanitary discourse organize a comprehensive frame of social analysis rendering the city fully transparent and knowable. Secondly, the paper argues that the knowability of the modern city stands analogous to the novelistic tendency to adjust fictional personage with respect to environmental shifts in the context of 19th-century European urban modernization. To afford the adjustable category of fictional characters, major urban writers like Balzac and Dickens continued to adopt and experiment with a broad range of scientific or technological discourses as the deterministic frame of urban topography outlining an equally deterministic, measurable set of human behaviors and consequences. The final point of the paper is how the overarching sense of abstraction and measurability with which to facilitate the uniformity of spatial features in urban fiction creates an impression that human experiences are all homogeneous across local or national barriers. Underlying this impression is the erosion of temporality lodged in the way in which the characters view their experiences.
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