Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction. Of Light Bulbs and Bathtubs: Excavating the Modern City 1
7. 1. Crumbling Columns and Day- Old Ruins: Specters of Antiquity on the American Grand Tour, 1819–1837 19
8. 2. “Even Eden, you know, ain’t all built”: Paper Cities, British Investors, and the Ruins of Cairo, Illinois, 1837–1844 63
9. 3. The Petrified City: Antiquity and Modernity in Melville’s New York, 1835–1865 107
10. 4. Relapsing into Barbarism: Labor, Ethnicity, and Ruin in Prospective Histories of Urban America, 1865–1906 147
11. 5. “Plagued By Their Own Inventions”: Refr aming the Technological Ruins of San Francisco, 1906–1909 191
12. 6. The Metropolitan Life in Ruins: Architectural and Fictional Speculations in New York, 1893–1919 243
13. Epilogue. Toward the Posthuman Ruin 289
14. Notes 295
15. Index 363