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The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers between social classes diminished. Innovations in printing and distribution gave rise to new mass-market genres: literary guidebooks known as tableaux de Paris and illustrated physiologies examined urban social types and fashions for a broad audience of Parisians hungry to explore and understand their changing society. The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the flâneur (a leisurely wanderer), the grisette (a young working-class woman), the gamin (a street urchin), and more. While the names of authors such as Paul de Kock are no longer familiar, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.

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Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France will quickly become a reference for instructors and researchers across disciplinary lines. - Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France is extremely compelling and pedagogically exciting. - Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas, Austin

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