Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the Nineteenth century

In her article "Paris and the Birth of the Modern Fantastic during the Nineteenth Century" Patricia Garcia discusses the unprecedented growth of Europe's urban centers during the nineteenth century in relation to the realist novel and takes urban and literary Paris as a paradigm. Howe...

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Main Author: García, Patricia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55348/
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description In her article "Paris and the Birth of the Modern Fantastic during the Nineteenth Century" Patricia Garcia discusses the unprecedented growth of Europe's urban centers during the nineteenth century in relation to the realist novel and takes urban and literary Paris as a paradigm. However, nineteenth-century Paris was also to become the epicenter of another narrative form: the fantastic. Garcia's objective is to explore how the modern city fueled the development of the fantastic by combining the literary and urban angle: how do works of the fantastic write the city? What role does the modern city play in the emergence of the fantastic short story? Her argumentation is divided into two parts: the first explores how literature circulated in space while the second focuses on the representations of Paris in nineteenth-century fantastic fiction to demonstrate that with the acceleration of modernity, the fantastic became an urban form of expression.
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spelling nottingham-553482018-10-23T12:54:04Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55348/ Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the Nineteenth century García, Patricia In her article "Paris and the Birth of the Modern Fantastic during the Nineteenth Century" Patricia Garcia discusses the unprecedented growth of Europe's urban centers during the nineteenth century in relation to the realist novel and takes urban and literary Paris as a paradigm. However, nineteenth-century Paris was also to become the epicenter of another narrative form: the fantastic. Garcia's objective is to explore how the modern city fueled the development of the fantastic by combining the literary and urban angle: how do works of the fantastic write the city? What role does the modern city play in the emergence of the fantastic short story? Her argumentation is divided into two parts: the first explores how literature circulated in space while the second focuses on the representations of Paris in nineteenth-century fantastic fiction to demonstrate that with the acceleration of modernity, the fantastic became an urban form of expression. 2017-03-17 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55348/1/index.html García, Patricia (2017) Paris and the birth of the modern fantastic during the Nineteenth century. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 19 (1). ISSN 1481-4374 https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol19/iss1/4/ doi:10.7771/1481-4374.2875 doi:10.7771/1481-4374.2875
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