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Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation
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Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation
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Popular Literature from Nineteenth-Century France: English Translation
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The city of Paris experienced rapid transformation in the middle of the nineteenth century: the population grew, industry and commerce increased, and barriers between social classes diminished. Innovations in printing and distribution gave rise to new mass-market genres: literary guidebooks known as
and illustrated
examined urban social types and fashions for a broad audience of Parisians hungry to explore and understand their changing society. The works in this volume offer a lively, humorous tour of the manners and characters of the
(a leisurely wanderer), the
(a young working-class woman), the
(a street urchin), and more. While authors such as Paul de Kock are little known today, their works still open a window onto a vivid time and place.