The Mysteries of Paris and London

By:

Richard Maxwell

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Hardback

Series:

Victorian Literature and Culture

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In this study, Richard Maxwell uses 19th-century urban fiction - in particular the novels of Hugo and Dickens - to define a genre: the novel of urban mysteries. His title comes from the ""mystery mania"" that captured both sides of the channel with the runaway success of Eugene Sue's ""Les Mysteres de Paris"" and G.W.M. Reynold's ""Mysteries of London"". He argues that within these extravagant but fact-obsessed narratives the archaic form of allegory became a means for understanding modern cities. Dominant among allegorical figures were labyrinths, panoramas, crowds and paperwork, and it was thought that to understand a figure was to understand the city with which it was linked. Novelists such as Hugo and Dickens were able to use such figures without necessarily mirroring ideology. Drawing from an array of disciplines, ideas and contexts, the book examines allegorical theory from the Renaissance through to the 20th century, journalistic practice, the conventions of scientific inquiry, popular psychiatry, illustration and modernized wonder tales (such as Victorian adaptations of the ""Arabian Nights""). It explores the ability of the written word to produce and present social knowledge.

Author Biography:

Richard Maxwell is Associate Professor of English at Valparaiso University and has had numerous essays published in scholarly journals.

Release date NZ

June 30th, 1992

Author

Richard Maxwell

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

23 b&w illustrations

Pages

416

Series

Victorian Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x34

ISBN-13

9780813913414

Product ID

4179825

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