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The emergence of modern Dublin: reality and representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Hugh Campbell
Hugh Campbell
Affiliation:
University College Dublin School of ArchitectureRichviewClonskeaghDublin 14Ireland
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Abstract

This paper challenges the predominant reading of Dublin's architectural history whereby the eighteenth century is a golden age of rational urbanism and the nineteenth century represents a collapse into confusion and stasis. It emphasises the different ways in which the city continued to change in the nineteenth century. An examination of James Joyce's changing representation of Dublin - from the ‘scrupulous meanness’ of Dubliners to the exuberance of Ulysses - suggests how an equivalent shift in architectural strategies, from a nostalgia for the formal certainties of Georgian Dublin towards an appreciation of the heterogeneous nineteenth-century city, might produce a new kind of urbanism.

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History
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Summer 1997 , pp. 44 - 53
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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