Title Dream Cities : Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-century France

Published Leeds : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages) Contents From Le Livre nouveau to 'la ville nouvelle' : elements of a Saint-Simonian poetics of the city -- 'Crayonnons à la hâte' : the modern urban in the journalistic prose of Théophile Gautier -- Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris : Rhapsodie and 'le vertige senti dans les grandes villes' -- Rhetorics of transformation and community in Rimbaud's Illuminations Summary Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanization, French utopian thinkers of the 19th century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. This study considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge upon prose writing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-246) and index Notes Includes some text in French Print version record Subject French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Cities and towns in literature -- History -- 19th century Utopias in literature -- History -- 19th century Cities and towns in literature French literature Utopias in literature Französisch Literatur Stadt Motiv Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781351192095 1351192094 1351192108 9781351192101

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