In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution.A cultural geography, ...
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In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution.A cultural geography, "Paris as Revolution" 'reads' the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fuelled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Valles, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Valles, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 0520086422.
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First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), xiv, 261pp. 20 text illustrations. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is near-VG (light sunning of the front panel). ISBN 0520086422.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket. Examination copy: publisher's stamp to fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Notes, index. A sound and handsome copy, very neat.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0520086422. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and quite bright. Red cloth cover with little or no wear. Dustjacket has only minor wear to edges, and otherwise fine and glossy.; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.0 inches; 267 pages.
