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