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British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875 (Hardcover)
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British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875 (Hardcover)
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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.
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