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Dream Cities
Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-century France
Copyright Year 2013
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Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-century France
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This book 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.
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Introduction 1. From Le Livre nouveau to 'la ville nouvelle': Elements of a Saint-Simonian Poetics of the City 2. Crayonnons à la hâte': The Modern Urban in the Journalistic Prose of Théophile Gautier 3. Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris: Rhapsodie and 'le vertige senti dans les grandes villes' 4. Rhetorics of Transformation and Community in Rimbaud's Illuminations 5. Conclusion
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Greg Kerr