Paris As Revolution - Writing the Nineteenth-Century City

"In this absolutely powerful and innovative book, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson illuminates the complex links between the Revolution of 1789, the different revolutions that took place in 19th-century Paris, and two aesthetic forms characteristic of the cultural discourses of modernity: panoramic journalism and the realist and historical novels authored by Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo, Zola, and Vallès. A work of cultural history with stimulating implications, Paris as Revolution is well-structured, carefully argued and problematized, and compelling in its scholarship."—Catherine Nesci, author of La Femme mode d'emploi

"A fascinating and richly suggestive essay on the cultural geography of nineteenth-century Paris. It is imaginatively conceived, broad in its reach, boldly interdisciplinary. Ferguson's success in combining literary criticism, historical interpretation and sociological analysis to reconstruct the shifting meanings given to the experiences of urbanization and revolution is most impressive."—Jonathan Beecher, author of Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World

About the author

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson is Professor of French and Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies for the Committee on Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Literary France: The Making of a Culture (California, 1987; under the name Priscilla Parkhurst Clark).

Product details

• Authors: Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Ferguson Priscilla Parkhurst
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9780520365667
• ISBN: 978-0-520-36566-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Europe, France, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history and criticism