Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Writing the City) by Christopher Prendergast

Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Writing the City)

Christopher Prendergast

283 pages first pub 1992 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Paris has long been the archetypal literary city. This identification reached its peak in the nineteenth century when Paris could reasonably fulfill Walter Benjamin's claimn for it: that it was the 'capital of the nineteenth century'. In this expa...

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