The Body in the City
History of European Ideas (1993)
- ISSN: 01916599
- ISBN: 8005221207
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Abstract
This article examines the rise of the detective genre in mid-19th century Europe and America, presenting it as a purely urban phenomenon that responded to the reorientation, necessitated by urban expansion, of the individual body in society. Focusing on the work of E A Poe and on the 19th century figure of the flaneur, the article discusses ways in which the urban environment reconstructs sensory experience and thereby paradoxically both alienates and foregrounds the body. The triangular dynamic upon which detective fiction is based is proposed as a method of both coping with and subverting a 'theft-of-the-self' peculiar to cities.
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