Paris as Revolution / Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parkhurst Ferguson, Priscilla, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Credits

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Writing Revolutions

1. Paris: Place and Space of Revolution

2. Mapping the City

3. The Flâneur: The City and Its Discontents

4. Haussmann's Paris and the Revolution of Representation

5. The Terrible Years

6. Judgments of Paris

Notes

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520323001

0520323009

OCLC:

1198931523