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Popular literature from nineteenth-century France : English translation / translated by Masha Belenky and Anne O'Neil-Henry.

Van Pelt Library PQ1113 .P67 2021
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Belenky, Masha, 1968- translator.
O'Neil-Henry, Anne, translator.
Series:
Texts and translations. Translations ; 33.
Texts and translations, 1079-2538 ; 33
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
French literature--19th century--Translations into English.
French literature.
Popular literature--France--Translations into English.
Popular literature.
France.
Genre:
Translations.
Physical Description:
xxxix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2021.
Summary:
"An English translation of humorous works published in French for a mass audience. Describes the changing society of nineteenth-century Paris, featuring character types such as the flaneur, the grisette, the gamin, and the bourgeois. Includes texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Delphine de Girardin, Louis Huart, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
"Asmodeus," from Paris; or, The book of a hundred and one / Jules Janin
"The gamin of Paris," from Paris; or, The book of a hundred and one / Gustave d'Outrepont
"The fashionable woman and the elegant woman in 1833," from Paris; or, The book of a hundred and one / Eugénie Foa
The stockbroker's son / Eugène Scribe and Henri Dupin
"Letter 27," from Parisian letters by the Vicomte de Launay / Delphine de Girardin
"A Grisette Party," from Parisian manners / Paul de Kock
"The flâneur," from The French depicted by themselves: a moral encyclopedia of the nineteenth century / Auguste de Lacroix
"The proper woman," from The French depicted by themselves: a moral encyclopedia of the nineteenth century / Honoré de Balzac
Physiology of the grisette / Louis Huart
Physiology of the flâneur / Louis Huart
Physiology of the bourgeois / Henry Monnier.
Notes:
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Other Format:
Online version: Popular literature from nineteenth-century France
ISBN:
9781603294966
1603294961
OCLC:
1164823945

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