Finding one's bearings in mid-nineteenth century Paris -- Regime change on the streets of Paris -- British eyewitness accounts of regime change -- Regime change as viewed from English shores -- Topographical -- Sensational Paris -- Socializing in Paris -- The salons -- Anglophone journalism in Paris -- Who were 'the Paris correspondents'? -- The working life of the Paris correspondents -- Thackeray's debt to the print world of Paris -- The fictional formatting of Paris -- The democratization of British fiction -- Fictional subgenres -- Stereotypes and prejudice
Summary
This work tells the story of the way in which the turbulent, hedonistic world of mid-19th-century Paris touched the careers and work of a host of Victorian writers, major and minor
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-313) and index
