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Christine Stevenson deposited Vantage Points in the Seventeenth-century City in the group Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago

Late twentieth-century social and linguistic theory tells us that the view from the tall building transforms us into analysts and historians, disembodied readers of the civic ‘text’. This paper argues that the proposition would have been familiar to seventeenth-century City-dwellers, and does so by pursuing the experience of the elevated obs…[Read more]
Christine Stevenson deposited Vantage Points in the Seventeenth-century City on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago

Late twentieth-century social and linguistic theory tells us that the view from the tall building transforms us into analysts and historians, disembodied readers of the civic ‘text’. This paper argues that the proposition would have been familiar to seventeenth-century City-dwellers, and does so by pursuing the experience of the elevated obs…[Read more]
Christine Stevenson's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months ago

Christine Stevenson