{"product_id":"paris-as-revolution-priscilla-parkhurst-ferguson-9780520365667","title":"Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City","description":"In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution. A cultural geography, \u003ci\u003eParis as Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e \"reads\" the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fueled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Vall鑚, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Vall鑚, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520365666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520365667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072305983743,"sku":"9780520365667","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b30c6f30-72b1-4049-9454-45210f5bff53.jpg?v=1685441169","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paris-as-revolution-priscilla-parkhurst-ferguson-9780520365667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}