Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City

by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520322991
• ISBN13: 9780520322998
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"