British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875

Author:   Elisabeth Jay (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199655243


Pages:   342
Publication Date:   18 February 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Elisabeth Jay (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.638kg
ISBN:  

9780199655243


ISBN 10:   0199655243
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   18 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part One: Finding one's bearings in mid-nineteenth-century Paris 1: Regime change on the streets of Paris 2: British eyewitness accounts of regime change 3: Regime change as viewed from English shores 4: Topographical 5: Sensational Paris 6: Socialising in Paris 7: The Salons Part Two: Anglophone journalism in Paris 8: Press conditions 9: Who were 'the Paris correspondents'? 10: The working life of the Paris correspondent 11: Thackeray's debt to the print world of Paris Part Three: The fictional formatting of Paris 12: The democratisation of British fiction 13: Fictional subgenres 14: Stereotype and prejudice Bibliography

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British Writers and Paris is both a very instructive and pleasant book to read. * Celine Sabiron, Review of English Studies *


British Writers and Paris is both a very instructive and pleasant book to read. Celine Sabiron, Review of English Studies


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Elisabeth Jay was born in London and educated at Talbot Heath School, Bournemouth and St. Anne's College, Oxford. She has lived and worked mainly in Oxford, with the occasional period researching and/or teaching, in the USA and France. Her research publications have pursued two, occasionally intersecting, major pathways: work on a number of Victorian women writers and the cross-disciplinary study of nineteenth-century literature and theology and scholarly editions of Victorian works in a variety of genres. Since September, 2011 she is Professor Emerita at Oxford Brookes University.

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