Changing France

Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire

von Anne Green

208 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The French Second Empire (1852-70) was a time of exceptionally rapid social, industrial and technological change. French literature also underwent fundamental changes during this period as writers embraced ‘modernity' and incorporated new technologies, fashions and inventions into their work. Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues. This volume brings literature and material culture together to reveal how writing itself changed as writers recognised the extraordinarily rich possibilities of expression opened up to them by the changing material world.

• Reihe: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781783080700
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2013
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Anthem Press