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Dream cities : urban utopia and prose by poets in nineteenth-century France by Greg Kerr is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanisation, French utopian thinkers of the nineteenth century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. Linking literary analyses with diverse strands of cultural and intellectual history, this study considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian literature, and in texts by Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. At points steeped in the hyperb
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- Author
- Greg Kerr
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781351192095
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Romance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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