Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France
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Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France
Sujet
exposition universelle, great exhibition, littérature, histoire de l'architecture, histoire urbaine, espace public, culture urbaine, France, Paris, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Hamon Philippe
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Expositions explores the spatial and cultural logic of Haussmann's sweeping Paris boulevards, classic novels by Balzac and Zola, the Bon Marché department store, and the poetry of Baudelaire.
Inspired by the cultural history of Walter Benjamin, Hamon investigates the phenomenon of the
Exposition universelle, with its spectacular public spaces. He relates how the entire urban landscape became a stage while the culture of the image attained ever greater currency in the daily experience of advertising, fashion, photography, and illustration. Masterfully interweaving cultural, architectural, and literary history with semiotic and rhetorical analysis (
exposition is also the foundation of novelistic practice), Hamon offers a virtuoso study of a key moment in the genesis of cultural modernity. His
Expositions will attract readers in literature, architecture, history, and cultural and urban studies.
is Professor Emeritus at the University of the New Sorbonne (Paris III) and a specialist in literary theory.
