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Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation
The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers between social classes diminished. Innovations in printing and distribution gave rise to new mass-market genres: literary guidebooks known as tableaux de Paris and illustrated physiologies examined urban social types and fashions for a broad audience of Parisians hungry to explore and understand their changing society. The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flâneur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While authors such as Paul de Kock are little known today, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.
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"Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France will quickly become a reference for instructors and researchers across disciplinary lines." —Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania
"Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France is extremely compelling and pedagogically exciting." —Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas, Austin
Paperback / softback | |
December 15, 2020 | |
9781603294966 | |
English | |
292 | |
8.50 Inches (US) | |
5.50 Inches (US) | |
.75 Pounds (US) | |
$22.00 USD | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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