Editors:
- Questions the time-honoured classification of literature by nation Explores and interrogates the writings of Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, and Pascale Casanova Brings together experts on a wide range of cultural capitals, including Brussels, Constantinople, and Munich
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature (PMEL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Beyond Paris
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Front Matter
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Rethinking the Centre
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives, proposing an alternative mapping of the field by focusing on different loci and sources of capital. Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century’ identifies the French capital as the epitome of modernity. His consideration of how literature enters the market as a commodity is developed by Pierre Bourdieu in The Rules of Art, which discusses the late nineteenth-century French literary field in terms of both economic and symbolic capital. This spatio-temporal approach to culture also underpins Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters, which posits Paris as the capital of the transnational literary field and Greenwich Meridian of literature. This volume brings together essays by specialists on Bayreuth, Brussels, Constantinople, Coppet, Marseilles, Melbourne, Munich and St Petersburg, as well as reflections on local-colour literature, the Symbolist novel and the strategies behind literary translation. Offering a series of innovative perspectives on nineteenth-century capital and cultural output, this study will be invaluable for all upper-levels students and scholars of modern European literature, culture and society.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Richard Hibbitt
About the editor
Richard Hibbitt is Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds, UK, where he directs the Centre for World Literatures. His publications include the monograph Dilettantism and its Values (2006) and the co-edited volume Saturn’s Moons: W.G. Sebald – A Handbook (with Jo Catling; 2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: An Alternative Mapping of Literary and Cultural Space
Editors: Richard Hibbitt
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57085-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57084-0Published: 20 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95406-3Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57085-7Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6478
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6486
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 281
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Cultural History, Urban History