Nineteenth-century Paris Research Articles

Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City.

In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle through which it could be portrayed. In this engaging book, Priscilla Ferguson locates the originality and modernity of nineteenth-century French literature in the intersection of the city with revolution.A cultural geography, Paris as Revolution 'reads' the nineteenth-century city not in literary works alone but across a broad spectrum of urban icons and narratives. Ferguson moves easily between literary and cultural history and between semiotic and sociological analysis to underscore the movement and change that fuelled the powerful narratives defining the century, the city, and their literature. In her understanding and reconstruction of the guidebooks of Mercier, Hugo, Valles, and others, alongside the novels of Flaubert, Hugo, Valles, and Zola, Ferguson reveals that these works are themselves revolutionary performances, ones that challenged the modernizing city even as they transcribed its emergence.

Papayanis, Nicholas. The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness

Papayanis, Nicholas. <i>The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness</i>

The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Kathleen Kete

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Kathleen Kete Elizabeth A. WilliamsElizabeth A. Williams Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 68, Number 2Jun., 1996 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/600792 Views: 7Total views on this site Copyright 1996 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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session Disharmony in the Juste Milieu: Labor in the July Mon archy examined aspects of working-class history in the first half of the nineteenth century. Charles Crouch assessed the growing distance between the petit bourgeoisie and the working class in The Politics of Economic Transformation: Small-Scale Employers, Their Employees and the Demise of Sociability. In addition to structural transformations of the economy, Crouch argued that an increase in popular violence that included calls for a redistribution of wealth alienated the lower middle class from its allies among laboring men. Revolution of 1848 completed the breach and thus frustrated a common politics. Judith DeGroat's paper, Gender in the Archives: An Assessment of the Sources for a History of Women's Work in July Monarchy Paris, called for a more complex view of female labor in this period. Focusing on the manufacturing trades, DeGroat asserted that archival sources challenge the contemporary perception of female labor as solely needlework and offer a means to assess women's view of their labor beyond that provided by the printed works of socialist feminists. In A Repertoire of Contention: Paris' Place de Gr?ve, 1830-1846, Casey Hari son explored the collective action of migrant masons. Drawing on Charles Tilly's formulation, Harison suggested that police and the people devel oped a repertoire of contention?recognized by both groups?that ac counts for the revolutionary activity in nineteenth-century Paris.

The Beast in the Boudouir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique view into the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliche of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarian's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding - all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, helped people imagine a better, more manageable version of the world. It relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to people's experience of isolation and lack of community in urban life, while the autonomous cat incarnated the feeling of anomie. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and the cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and warmth. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class.

Kathleen Kete. &lt;italic&gt;The Beast in the Boudouir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris&lt;/italic&gt;. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1994. Pp. x, 200. $30.00

Kathleen Kete. The Beast in the Boudouir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1994. Pp. x, 200. $30.00 Kete Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudouir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1994. Pp. x, 200. $30.00. Nicholas Papayanis Nicholas Papayanis Brooklyn College, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 100, Issue 5, December 1995, Page 1588, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/100.5.1588-a Published: 01 December 1995

Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.

Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. Nicholas Papayanis

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. Nicholas Papayanis Judith F. StoneJudith F. Stone Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 67, Number 4Dec., 1995 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/245257 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1995 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Review. Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris. Garb, Tamar

Review. Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris. Garb, Tamar

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Journal Article REVIEWS Get access Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris. By TAMAR GARB. New Haven-London, Yale University Press, 1994. viii + 207 pp. Hb £35.00. RICHARD WRIGLEY RICHARD WRIGLEY OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLIX, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 473-a–473, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLIX.4.473-a Published: 01 October 1995

Galleries of modern art in nineteenth-century Paris and London: their location and urban influence

Museums of contemporary art tend to be exclusive landmarks of great capitals. We are used to finding art galleries in the most prominent of locations, either in old palaces, or in purpose-built museum buildings. For the special case of galleries of contemporary art, however, it is also a common policy to provide space at the middle of an out-of-town park, or else into the heart of an urban renewal area, using modern arts as ‘flagships’ of city regeneration. This article strives to show that today's dilemmas and choices about the siting of galleries of art are a legacy of the nineteenth century, recalling the lively controversies concerning the urban setting of the ParisianMusée des Artistes Vivantsand its London equivalents. The different national cases are explored, to reveal several distinct models of gallery formation.

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. By Nicholas Papayanis (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xvi plus 247pp. $45.00)

Journal Article The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. By Nicholas Papayanis (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xvi plus 247pp. $45.00) Get access Lee Shai Weissbach Lee Shai Weissbach University of Louisville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 4, Summer 1995, Pages 890–892, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.4.890 Published: 01 July 1995

Nicholas Papayanis, The Coachmen of Nineteenth Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xvi + 247pp. 12 plates. 30 tables. Bibliography. £42.75.

Nicholas Papayanis, The Coachmen of Nineteenth Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. xvi + 247pp. 12 plates. 30 tables. Bibliography. £42.75.

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness.

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness.

Book Review: The Coachmen of Nineteenth-century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness

Book Review: The Coachmen of Nineteenth-century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness

Introduction: Seeing the Past

In the forum that follows, we may feel disconcerted while moving from article to article and site to site-after all, what could a wax figure of Gustave Eiffel, bullet holes in a church wall, or a museum logo of a poppy have in common? In the first piece, Vanessa Schwartz takes us on a visit to the Musee Gre'vin of late nineteenth-century Paris, where she offers us a view of the uncanny wax figures and of the entrepreneurs behind the scenes. Moving to post-World War II France, Sarah Farmer guides us through the preserved ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, where inJune 1944 the Nazis brutally killed 642 inhabitants and subsequently burned the town to the ground. Finally, Daniel Sherman presents us with the opportunity to study the workings of three French war museums-all built in the last thirty years, and each dedicated to one of the two world wars. The incongruities among these articles are readily apparent: the enclosed museums juxtaposed with an open-air memorial; the former seemingly artificially constituted, the latter meant to remain just as it was left. We might be led to ponder how the tragic features of the Oradour ruins relate to the entertaining aspects of the Musee Gre'vin. Moving from article to article we also sense shifts in emphasis between current and historical events: Schwartz highlights the Musee Grevin's fascination with the present, whereas Farmer and Sherman pose questions about the function of memory. Furthermore, these accounts feature a broad range of organizers and people who have enthusiastically promoted these projects. In Schwartz's article there are the businessmen, who promoted contemporary Parisian life, democracy, and their pocketbooks; in Farmer's the survivors

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness by Nicholas Papayanis

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness by Nicholas Papayanis

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness

The Coachmen of Nineteenth-Century Paris: Service Workers and Class Consciousness

Sisters of the brush: women's artistic culture in late nineteenth-century Paris

Vision and division in the sisterhood of artists amidst a veritable flood of painting - establishing a context for the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs feminism, philanthropy and the femme artiste reason and resistance - women's entry into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts the sex of art - in search of le genie feminin l'art feminin - a Utopian vision.

John E. Zucchi. &lt;italic&gt;The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York&lt;/italic&gt;. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, number 13.) Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1992. Pp. viii, 208. $34.95

John E. Zucchi. The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, number 13.) Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1992. Pp. viii, 208. $34.95 Zucchi John E.. The Little Slaves of the Harp: Italian Child Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century Paris, London, and New York. (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, number 13.) Buffalo, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1992. Pp. viii, 208. $34.95. Rudolph J. Vecoli Rudolph J. Vecoli University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 99, Issue 3, June 1994, Page 869, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/99.3.869 Published: 01 June 1994