1st Edition
Rewriting 'Les Mystères de Paris' The 'Mystères Urbains' and the Palimpsest
By Amy Wigelsworth
Copyright 2016
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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Key works of popular fiction are often rewritten to capitalize on their success. But what are the implications of this rewriting process? Such is the question addressed by this detailed study of several rewritings of Eugène Sue’s Mystères de Paris (1842-43), produced in the latter half of the nineteenth century, in response to the phenomenal success of Sue’s archetypal urban mystery. Pursuing a... Read more
1 Mystery: Narrative and Theory 2 Reading Urban Space: The City as Text 3 The Palimpsest Trope 4 Americanizations 5 The Past is a Foreign City: Historicization 6 Future Perfect?: Utopia 7 La Suite à demain: Serializing the City 8 The City en scène: Theatre Adaptations 9 The ‘Carnivalesque’ and the Conservative: Parody as Palimpsest
Biography
Amy Wigelsworth completed her PhD at Durham University. She currently holds a part-time lectureship in French at the Sheffield Business School (Sheffield Hallam University), and also teaches French at the University of York.
