Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Writing the City)
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (849 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0631157883 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Prendergast concludes by sketching some perspectives which join the pre-modern Paris of the 19th century to the postmodern city of the late 20th century and presents a more general argument concerning the intellectual and political stakes in writing about the city today.. In this book, Christopher Prendergast explores the identifications made in and about Paris - from the inspector's report and the guide book to the imaginative literature - and considers what was entailed by the competing and contradictory claims that Paris and Parisians had either acquired or lost a settled identity. "Paris and the Nineteenth Century" moves between social and cultural history, literature, painting and photograph
Throughout, Prendergast writes brilliantly." Times Literary Supplement"Paris and the Nineteenth Century is an intricate and challenging book, with much to say not only about Paris but about other cities, and about the business of thinking about cities. It is a dense and rich work, it thinks hard and it makes you think." London Review of Books"Readers looking for both plaisir du texte and rigorous scholarship could not expect a more original and powerful voice than Prendergast's, as this prominent critic leads us on a series of sensuous strolls and connected mappings through the pictorial, historical, and literary spaces of the pre-modern capital, and soon-to-be modern metropolis." Substance. "Prendergast offers a fascinating view of the changing structures and sensibilities of 19th-century Paris." Times Higher Education Supplement"Tanner's book, and Christopher Prendergast's on ninete
He is the author of Balzac: Fiction and Melodrama and Paris Spectacle and editor of Nineteenth Century French Poetry.. Christopher Prendergast is currently Distinguished Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School, City University of New York, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge