The Cambridge companion to the literature of Paris / edited by Anna-Louise Milne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milne, Anna-Louise, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--France--Paris--History and criticism.

French literature.

Literature and society--France--Paris.

Literature and society.

Paris (France)--In literature.

Paris (France).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had begun to find form in print. This collection follows that process through to the present day. Beginning with the 'salon', followed by the hybrid culture of libertinage and the revolutionary hotbeds of working-class districts, it explores the continuities and changes between the pre-modern era and the nineteenth century, when Paris asserted itself as cultural capital of Europe. It goes on to explore how this vision of Paris as a key capital of modernity has shaped contemporary literature.

Contents:

Introduction: The city as book / Anna-Louise Milne

The Marais: 'Paris' in the seventeenth century / Joan DeJean

Libertine Paris / Stephane Van Damne

The Faubourg Saint-Antoine: epicentre of revolution? / Tom Stammers

Honore de Balzac's 'idea' of Paris / Owen Heathcote

Circulation in Baudelaire's Paris / Maria Scott

The remaking of Paris: Zola and Haussmann / Brian Nelson

Paris-lesbos: Colette's haunts / Nicole G. Albert

Celine and Montmartre: Bohemia and music hall

/ Nicholas Hewitt

Surrealist literature and urban crime / Jeremy Stubbs

The location of experiment: 'modernist Paris' / Geoff Gilbert

Banlieue blues / Alec G. Hargreaves

Paris: city of disappearances / Michael Sheringham.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107423862

1107423864

9780511793363

0511793367