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Images of the City in Nineteenth-Century France
Edited by John WEST-SOOBY
Brisbane: Boombana Publications, 1998.
(272 pages, 220 x 155 mm, PB, ISBN 1876542012)
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While modernity did not, of course, invent the city, the experience of urban life as alienating, disjointed and kaleidoscopic is largely the result of the Industrial Revolution and the social and cultural changes it wrought. This probably explains why, over and above the mythical aura that has in all times attached to the large metropolis, in the nineteenth century the city began to become a major theme for countless writers, artists and thinkers--a complex image, at the same time a defining feature, symptom and symbol of the modern condition.
A fascination for the emergence of this new perception of the city is what binds the following essays--the product of a conference held at the University of Adelaide in July 1996--which cover a wide range of issues and present a variety of perspectives. They collectively explore the complex relationship that establishes itself during the nineteenth century between the historical, the sociological, the ideological and the aesthetic. |
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John West-Sooby
Introduction
Michael D. Sibalis
Paris-Babylone/Paris-Sodome: Images of homosexuality
in the nineteenth-century city
Françoise Grauby
La ville en deuil: le siège de Paris dans le Journal des Goncourt
Barrie Ratcliffe
Visions and (Re)visions of City Life: Popular classes
and cohabitation in mid-nineteenth century Paris
Heath Lees
Plaisir Sacré: Nineteenth-century concert-giving in Paris
and Mallarmé's "M(m)usique"
Catherine Nesci
Le Pari(s) de la paria: sur l'utopie urbaine de Flora Tristan
Jacqueline Dutton
La ville dans les romans champêtres de George Sand:
image générique ou fonction utopique?
Jean Fornasiero
Nerval et l'impossible "cité merveilleuse": entre la bohême parisienne et la symbolique fouriériste
Owen Heathcote
Out in the City: Reconstructing history, health and gender
in Balzac's L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine
Alain Montandon
Imaginaire de la ville chez Théophile Gautier
Yves Lochard
Les espaces de la pauvreté dans le roman français du XIXe siècle
P.M. Wetherill
L'émergence de la ville: notes sur la confrontation
de Madame Bovary et de L'Assommoir - texte et prétexte
Aurélie Fornasiero
Urban Intertexts: the city of Zola and Pennac
Timothy Unwin
Plagiarist at Work? Jules Verne and the Australian city
Leonard R. Koos
"Terrains vagues": Writing the fin-de-siècle suburb
Sonya Stephens
Parisian Poetics: Baudelaire's "magasin d'images et de signes"
Jill Anderson
"La ville se déplie": Recoding the city as text in nineteenth-century
French poetry - Verlaine's poetic kaleidoscope
Robert Lethbridge
Picturing Paris: Image and pretext, from Zola to Pissaro
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