Corridors : passages of modernity / Roger Luckhurst.

  • Luckhurst, Roger
Date:
2019
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2019.

Physical description

335 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits, plans ; 23 cm

Contents

1. Origins -- 2. The Utopia of Corridors, I: Charles Fourier's Phalanstery -- 3. The Utopia of Corridors, II: Social Housing from Petrograd to the Barbican -- 4. Corridors of Commerce: The Arcade, the Exhibition Hall, the Mall -- 5. The Ecstasy of Communication: The Hotel Corridor -- 6. Corridors of Reform: Prison, Workhouse, Asylum, Hospital, School and University -- 7. Passages to Privacy: The English Gentleman's House -- 8. The Dystopia of Corridors, I: Bureaucracy -- 9. The Dystopia of Corridors, II: Dread and the Gothic.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    ZVEN.PX
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1789140536
  • 9781789140538