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Neighbours and Rivals
- An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London
Engelsk
Bogcover for Neighbours and Rivals af Louis-Sebastian Mercier, 9781843682707
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
284
ISBN-13:
9781843682707
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1843682702
Udg. Dato:
1 jul 2025
Størrelse i cm:
13,7 x 19,6 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
1 jul 2025
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Neighbours and Rivals

- An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and London
Engelsk
Hardback 2025
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The first work of great French journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier, this seminal work of travel writing remained unpublished for over 200 years.
Mercier first travelled to London, and began recording his impressions, in 1780. An exemplar of a new form of journalistic, reflective literature, he presented emotive representations of the city as collections of experiences, habits and personalities. And differently from Dickens’s London or Baudelaire’s Paris, with their contrasts of opulence and misery, Mercier describes a less familiar urban environment – more optimistic, perhaps even utopian. His version of London is, in fact, a projection of his philosophical imagination – not simply a rounded portrait but also a reflection of what he hoped Paris could become.

For this first publication in English, Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin’s translation preserves the life and humour of Mercier’s text. It is illustrated with contemporary images, with an emphasis on Thomas Rowlandson and Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin, the first Parisian flâneur-artist.


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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
284
ISBN-13:
9781843682707
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1843682702
Udg. Dato:
1 jul 2025
Størrelse i cm:
13,7 x 19,6 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
1 jul 2025
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