Paris and the Nineteenth Century

"Prendergast offers a fascinating view of the changing structures and sensibilities of 19th-century Paris." Times Higher Education Supplement"Tanner's book, and Christopher Prendergast's on nineteenth-century Paris, are the first volumes in what promises to be an outstanding series on 'Writing the City'. Throughout, Prendergast writes brilliantly." Times Literary Supplement"Paris and the Nineteenth Century is an intricate and challenging book, with much to say not only about Paris but about other cities, and about the business of thinking about cities. It is a dense and rich work, it thinks hard and it makes you think." London Review of Books"Readers looking for both plaisir du texte and rigorous scholarship could not expect a more original and powerful voice than Prendergast's, as this prominent critic leads us on a series of sensuous strolls and connected mappings through the pictorial, historical, and literary spaces of the pre-modern capital, and soon-to-be modern metropolis." SubstancePrendergast, Christopher is the author of 'Paris and the Nineteenth Century' with ISBN 9780631196945 and ISBN 0631196943.