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Tanner's book, and Christopher Prendergast's on nineteenth-century Paris, are the first volumes in what promises to be an outstanding series on 'Writing the City'. Throughout, Prendergast writes brilliantly.

Tanner's book, and Christopher Prendergast's on nineteenth-century Paris, are the first volumes in what promises to be an outstanding series on 'Writing the City'. 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.

Paris has long been the archetypal literary city. In this expansive and entertaining book Christopher Prendergast explores the way writers and others have identified with Paris and been iden Paris has long been the archetypal literary city

Christopher Prendergast specializes in French literature and cultural history, principally of. .

Christopher Prendergast specializes in French literature and cultural history, principally of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Paris in the Twentieth Century (French: Paris au XXe siècle) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The book presents Paris in August 1960, 97 years in Verne's future, where society places value only on business and technology. Written in 1863 but first published 131 years later (1994), the novel follows a young man who struggles unsuccessfully to live in a technologically advanced, but culturally backwards world

Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson.

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Prendergast, Christopher. Paris and the nineteenth century. Book, Online - Google Books. Prendergast, Christopher. City and town life in literature. Arts, French - France - Paris - 19th century. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell. Paris and the nineteenth century, Christopher Prendergast Blackwell Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA 1992. Australian/Harvard Citation. Paris (France) - Civilization - 19th century. Paris (France) - In literature. Paris and the 19th century.

In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural .

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 in the intersection of the city with revolution.

1 List of books, arranged by author. Sharon Marcus, Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London (Berkeley, 1999). 2 List of works, arranged chronologically. Published in the 17th–18th centuries. Published in the 19th century. Published in the 20th century. Published in the 21st century. Christopher Prendergast, Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1992), Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties (1993); social, artistic, and political life. Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City (Berkeley, 1994). Vincent Cronin (1994).

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