Paris as Revolution : Writing the 19th Century City by Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst - 1994

University of California Press, 1997. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0520086422 . Red cloth. xiv, 261pp. Acknowledgements, black-and-white photographs, notes, and index. A fascinating and richly suggestive essay on the cultural geography of nineteenth-century Paris that combines literary criticism, historical interpretation, and sociological analysis. from the rear cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Berkeley, Los Angeles & London : University of California Press, 1994. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), xiv, 261pp. 20 text illustrations. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is near-VG (light sunning of the front panel). ISBN 0520086422

US: University of California Press, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket. Examination copy: publisher's stamp to fore edge. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Notes, index. A sound and handsome copy, very neat. .

Paperback / softback. New. 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… Read More