Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst
Published: University of California Press, 1997
Subjects: Literature |
Social Theory |
European Literature |
Literary Theory and Criticism |
European History |
French StudiesPublisher's Description: 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 . . .
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