Dream Cities
Subtitle: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781907975530
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Cities and towns in literature; Utopias in literature
Description: Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanization, French utopian thinkers of the 19th century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. This study considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge upon prose writing.