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Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation

Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation

Paperback
Publication Date: 30/12/2020

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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.

ISBN:
9781603294966
9781603294966
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-12-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Modern Language Association of America
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
215.9x139.7x15.24mm
Weight:
0.34kg

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