Author: Jeremy Popkin
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. Colorfully written, the text provides a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, describing the interactions of workers, street peddlers, prostitutes, police spies, actresses, noblemen, parish priests, servants, and criminals. Based on Helen Simpson's lively 1933 abridged translation, this edition includes seven newly translated chapters and an introduction by Jeremy D. Popkin. Earlier authors had described Paris's monuments and the lives of its wealthy elites, but Mercier was the first to try to capture in words the texture of its everyday life. His text, contemporary with Rousseau's Confessions, is the first attempt to write the autobiography of a unique urban community. His writing deeply influenced Balzac and other nineteenth-century French novelists and continues to serve as a major source of social and cultural history for French historians. Panorama of Paris will fascinate all lovers of Paris and its history. It should be of special interest to students of French literature and history, and to anyone interested in the origins of modern attitudes toward city life.
Panorama of Paris
Author: Jeremy Popkin
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. Colorfully written, the text provides a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, describing the interactions of workers, street peddlers, prostitutes, police spies, actresses, noblemen, parish priests, servants, and criminals. Based on Helen Simpson's lively 1933 abridged translation, this edition includes seven newly translated chapters and an introduction by Jeremy D. Popkin. Earlier authors had described Paris's monuments and the lives of its wealthy elites, but Mercier was the first to try to capture in words the texture of its everyday life. His text, contemporary with Rousseau's Confessions, is the first attempt to write the autobiography of a unique urban community. His writing deeply influenced Balzac and other nineteenth-century French novelists and continues to serve as a major source of social and cultural history for French historians. Panorama of Paris will fascinate all lovers of Paris and its history. It should be of special interest to students of French literature and history, and to anyone interested in the origins of modern attitudes toward city life.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271043036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten masterpieces of French literature, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris (published from 1781 to 1788), an important and original work that helped shape many kinds of French writing. Colorfully written, the text provides a fascinating portrait of everyday life in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, describing the interactions of workers, street peddlers, prostitutes, police spies, actresses, noblemen, parish priests, servants, and criminals. Based on Helen Simpson's lively 1933 abridged translation, this edition includes seven newly translated chapters and an introduction by Jeremy D. Popkin. Earlier authors had described Paris's monuments and the lives of its wealthy elites, but Mercier was the first to try to capture in words the texture of its everyday life. His text, contemporary with Rousseau's Confessions, is the first attempt to write the autobiography of a unique urban community. His writing deeply influenced Balzac and other nineteenth-century French novelists and continues to serve as a major source of social and cultural history for French historians. Panorama of Paris will fascinate all lovers of Paris and its history. It should be of special interest to students of French literature and history, and to anyone interested in the origins of modern attitudes toward city life.
Panorama of Paris
Author: Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feuilletons, French
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Feuilletons, French
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The Panorama
Author: Bernard Comment
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891235
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In this book, Bernard Comment examines the wide variety of panoramas featuring both the old and the new worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Baker's View of Edinburgh and depictions of Paris, Moscow and Lima.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891235
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In this book, Bernard Comment examines the wide variety of panoramas featuring both the old and the new worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Baker's View of Edinburgh and depictions of Paris, Moscow and Lima.
Panorama of Paris and Its Environs
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Paris in Panorama
Author: Bill Carr
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557259258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A book filled with fresh and exciting images in portrait and panorama of Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley.Come along for the journey!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557259258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A book filled with fresh and exciting images in portrait and panorama of Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley.Come along for the journey!
Panorama of Paris
Author: Frederick Nash
Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Description of a view of the city of Paris, taken from the Place Louis xvi., now exhibiting at the Panorama, Strand, painted by R. Burford
Author: London panorama, Strand
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Paris as Revolution
Author: Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520323009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book 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 through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520323009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book 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 through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution "reads" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vallès, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vallès, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Notes on the Panorama in Paris
Author: Barry V. Daniels
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
London
Author: Sarah McMenemy
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763653538
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An enticing slipcased 10-foot, 3D foldout of London's most celebrated sites, including the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, and the Houses of Parliament. Full color.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763653538
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An enticing slipcased 10-foot, 3D foldout of London's most celebrated sites, including the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, and the Houses of Parliament. Full color.