The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521182131
• ISBN13: 9780521182133
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"