The Cambridge companion to the literature of Paris
By: edited by Anna-Louise Milne
Series: Cambridge companions to literature; Cambridge companions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780521182133; 9781107005129
Subjects: French literature; In literature; Literature and society; History and criticism
Other titles: Literature of Paris
Description: "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 that process through to the present day. Beginning with the 'salon', followed by the hybrid culture of libertinage and the revolutionary hotbeds of working-class districts, it explores the continuities and changes between the pre-modern era and the nineteenth century, when Paris asserted itself as cultural capital of Europe. It goes on to explore how this vision of Paris as a key capital of modernity has shaped contemporary literature." -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The city as book / Anna-Louise Milne; title: The Marais: 'Paris' in the seventeenth century / Joan DeJean; title: Libertine Paris / Stephane Van Damne; title: The Faubourg Saint-Antoine: epicentre of revolution? / Tom Stammers; title: Honore de Balzac's 'idea' of Paris / Owen Heathcote; title: Circulation in Baudelaire's Paris / Maria Scott; title: The remaking of Paris: Zola and Haussmann / Brian Nelson; title: Paris-lesbos: Colette's haunts / Nicole G. Albert; title: Celine and Montmartre: Bohemia and music hall; title: / Nicholas Hewitt; title: Surrealist literature and urban crime / Jeremy Stubbs; title: The location of experiment: 'modernist Paris' / Geoff Gilbert; title: Banlieue blues / Alec G. Hargreaves; title: Paris: city of disappearances / Michael Sheringham.