@article{693697,
      recid = {693697},
      author = {Milne, Anna-Louise.},
      title = {The Cambridge companion to the literature of Paris /},
      pages = {xxiii, 259 pages :},
      abstract = {"No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep  association with the development of literary forms and  cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary  self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth  century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a  long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination,  in which the city represented itself to itself, had begun  to find form in print. This collection follows that process  through to the present day. Beginning with the 'salon',  followed by the hybrid culture of libertinage and the  revolutionary hotbeds of working-class districts, it  explores the continuities and changes between the  pre-modern era and the nineteenth century, when Paris  asserted itself as cultural capital of Europe. It goes on  to explore how this vision of Paris as a key capital of  modernity has shaped contemporary literature." -- Publisher  description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/693697},
}