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Americans in Paris, 1900-1930 - A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Americans in Paris, 1900-1930 - A Selected, Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature
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Bailey is an accomplished bibliographer. . . . His annotations
document the scintillating Paris of the early 1900s in smooth
prose. Contents are arranged in eight broad topical groups, like
Writers and Their Crowds, ' with author and subject indexes. . . .
Scholars of English and French literatures, American and French
history, and 20th-century fine arts will find relevant materials
here. Choice Americans in Paris, 1900-1930 concentrates on the
influx of artistic Americans who booked passage for the City of
Lights during the early twentieth century. Bailey traces the
Americans' arrival in Paris to their departure during the Great
Depression. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first
chapter provides background on Americans in Paris prior to 1900 and
on the rise of French bohemia. Newspaper Accounts document the
astonishing flow of people and money from America to France. The
Expatriation Question studies the problem of Americans speaking out
against their homeland. Tourism and Americanization probes
America's rapid influence in France. Writers and Their Crowd
identifies the serious artists who wrote about their experiences in
Paris. Painters, Sculptors, Photographers singles out those
Americans who enrolled in Paris art schools and benefited from
exposure to an art-rich city. Musician and Other Paris Americans
rounds out the diverse gathering of these intriguing people.
Creative Literature captures the Paris experience in fiction and
speaks more truth than many of the memoirs.
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