Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation
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Auguste de Lacroix
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Delphine de Girardin
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flaneurs
French women's writing
history
Honore de Balzac
industrial revolution
nonfiction
physiologies
realist literature
social class
society
tableaux de Paris
urban
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- ISBN 9781603294966
- Weight: 365g
- Dimensions: 152 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
