Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: French Text Paperback / softback
Edited by Masha Belenky, Anne O'Neil-Henry
Part of the Texts and Translations series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 the names of authors such as Paul de Kock are no longer familiar, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:277 pages
- Publisher:Modern Language Association of America
- Publication Date:15/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781603294935
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:277 pages
- Publisher:Modern Language Association of America
- Publication Date:15/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781603294935
