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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-246) and index