Author: Henry Robert AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Forty-eight Hours in Paris, Amidst the Ruins
Author: Henry Robert AddisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875
Author: Elisabeth JayPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191074748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
'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.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates (finished by Jon. A. Hjaltalin, and T. H. Jamieson)
Author: Samuel HalkettPublishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: History of the Paris Commune of 1871
Author: Prosper-Olivier LissagarayPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844677761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The classic history of the Paris Commune In 1871, the working class of Paris, incensed by their lack of political power and tired of beingexploited, seized control of the capital. This book is the outstanding history of the Commune, theheroic battles fought in its defence, and the bloody massacre that ended the uprising. Its author,Lissagaray, was a young journalist who not only saw the events recounted here first-hand, butfought for the Commune on the barricades. He spent the next twenty-five years researching andwriting this history, which refutes the slanders levelled at the Communards by the ruling classesand is a vivid and valuable study in urban political revolution, one that retains its power to inspireto this day. This revised edition includes a foreword by the writer and publisher Eric Hazan.
Supplementary volume. 1879
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The History of France: from the Earliest Period to the Present Time ... Illustrated with Beautiful Engravings on Steel
Author: Thomas WrightPublisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Author: American Institute of ArchitectsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The Commune of Paris, 1871
Author: Roger Lawrence WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description