Fictions of the city : class, culture and mass housing in London and Paris

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    • Taunton, Matthew

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Fictions of the city : class, culture and mass housing in London and Paris

Matthew Taunton

(Language, discourse, society)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

  • : hbk

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Bibliography: p. 187-196

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Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth , this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Haussman's Paris and the Immeuble The London Suburbs The Rise of the Parisian Banlieue The London Council Estate Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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