{"product_id":"louis-sbastien-mercier-michael-j-mulryan-9781684484874","title":"Louis S饕astien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris","description":"French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis S饕astien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study--the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades--Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, \u003ci\u003eTableau de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1781-88) and \u003ci\u003eLe Nouveau Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1798), in which he identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the laboring poor, encouraged educational reform, and confronted universal social ills. Mercier's rich writings speak powerfully to the sociopolitical problems that continue to afflict us as political leaders manipulate public debate and encourage absolutist thinking, deepening social divides. An outcast for his polemical views during his lifetime, Mercier has been called the founder of modern urban discourse, and his work a precursor to investigative journalism. This sensitive study returns him to his rightful place among Enlightenment thinkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael J. Mulryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684484871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684484874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Michael J. Mulryan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44411017625855,"sku":"9781684484874","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_720d71e6-2a8e-4511-b459-b724e5123a36.jpg?v=1697538644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/louis-sbastien-mercier-michael-j-mulryan-9781684484874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}