Author: William Blanchard JERROLD
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Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Category : Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris
Languages : en
Pages : 1492

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Author: Elisabeth Jay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191074748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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'A wicked and detestable place, though wonderfully attractive': Charles Dickens's conflicted feelings about Paris typify the fascination and repulsion with which a host of mid-nineteenth-century British writers viewed their nearest foreign capital. Variously perceived as the showcase for sophisticated, cosmopolitan talent, the home of revolution, a stronghold of Roman Catholicism, and a shrine to irreligious hedonism, Paris was also a city where writers were respected and journalism flourished. This historically-grounded account of the ways in which Paris touched the careers and work of both major and minor Victorian writers considers both their actual experiences of an urban environment, distinctively different from anything Britain offered, and the extent to which this became absorbed and expressed within the Victorian imaginary. Casting a wide literary net, the first part of this book explores these writers' reaction to the swiftly changing politics and topography of Paris, before considering the nature of their social interactions with the Parisians, through networks provided by institutions such as the British Embassy and the salons. The second part of the book examines the significance of Paris for mid-nineteenth-century Anglophone journalists., paying particular attention to the ways in which the young Thackeray's exposure to Parisian print culture shaped him as both writer and artist. The final part focuses on fictional representations of Paris, revealing the frequency with which they relied upon previous literary sources, and how the surprisingly narrow palette of subgenres, structures and characters they employed contributed to the characteristic, and sometimes contradictory, prejudices of a swiftly-growing British readership.

Author: Annie Cohen-Solal
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Describes the transformation in American art as a vast group of American artists settled in Paris to study with the great French painters, and continued through the twentieth century as French artists began to leave Paris for New York.

Author: Karl Marx
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The Civil War in France is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx. It presents a convincing declaration of the General Council of the International, pertaining to the character and importance of the struggle of the Communards in the Paris Commune at the time.

Author: William Blanchard JERROLD
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Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: Columbia University. School of Mines. Library
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Athenæum Club (London, England). Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135945861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, Paris, Capital of Modernity offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. The book is heavily illustrated and includes a number drawings, portraits and cartoons by Daumier, one of the greatest political caricaturists of the nineteenth century.