Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-century France
Author:   Greg Kerr
Publisher:   Maney Publishing
ISBN:  

9781907975530


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-century France


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This book considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud.

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Author:   Greg Kerr
Publisher:   Maney Publishing
Imprint:   Maney Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781907975530


ISBN 10:   1907975535
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. From Le Livre nouveau to 'la ville nouvelle': Elements of a Saint-Simonian Poetics of the City 2. Crayonnons à la hâte': The Modern Urban in the Journalistic Prose of Théophile Gautier 3. Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Rhapsodie and 'le vertige senti dans les grandes villes' 4. Rhetorics of Transformation and Community in Rimbaud's Illuminations 5. Conclusion

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