F254 Modernity and the City
Selected secondary reading:
General historical/theoretical background
Malcolm Bradbury ‘The Cities of Modernism’ in Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane eds.,
Modernism (London: Penguin, 1976).
Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project,
(Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1989).
------ ‘The Flâneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: the Politics of Loitering’, New German
Critique, 39 (1986), pp.99-140.
Graeme Gilloch, Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City (Cambridge: Polity, 1995).
Richard Lehan, The City in Literature: an intellectual and cultural history (Berkeley: UCP, 1998).
T.McBride ‘A Woman’s World: Department Stores and the Evolution of Women’s
Employment, 1870-1920’, French Historical Studies 10, 1977-78, pp.664-683.
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Paris as Revolution : Writing in the 19th-century City (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994).
Deborah L. Parsons Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity (Oxford: OUP,
2000).
Christopher Prendergast Paris and the 19th Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Philippe Simay ed., Capitale de la modernité: Walter Benjamin et la ville (Paris: Eclat, 2005).
Keith Tester, The Flâneur (London: Routledge, 1994).
Raymond Williams ‘The Metropolis and the Emergence of Modernism’ in Edward Timms &
David Kelley eds., Unreal City: Urban experience in modern European literature,
(Manchester: MUP, 1985).
Heinz Wismann ed., Walter Benjamin et Paris, (Paris: Cerf, 1986).
On Baudelaire
Walter Benjamin, The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire, trans. Howard Eiland et
al. (Cambridge MA.: Harvard UP, 2006).
M. Berman, `Baudelaire: Modernism on the Streets' in M. Berman, All that is Solid Melts into Air:
The Experience of Modernity (London: Verso, 1993) 131- 171.
R. Chambers, `Baudelaire's Street Poetry' in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 13 (1985) 244259.
P. Collier, `Nineteenth-Century Paris: Vision and Nightmare' in E. Timms & D. Kelly (eds.),
Unreal City: Urban Experience in Modern European Literature and Art (Manchester: MUP,
1985) 25-44.
J.A.Hiddleston, Baudelaire and Le Spleen de Paris (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987).
Karlheinz Stierle, ‘Baudelaire and the Tradition of the Tableau de Paris’, New Literary History
Vol. 11, No. 2, (Winter, 1980), pp. 345-361.
On Zola
Rachel Bowlby, Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola (London: Methuen,
1985).
Dorothy Kelly, Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French
Novel (University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2007).
Anna Krakowski, La Condition de la femme dans l’oeuvre d’Emile Zola (Paris : Nizet, 1974).
Henri Mittérand, Emile Zola: Fiction and Modernity, trans. and ed. by Monica Lebron and David
Baguley (London: Emile Zola Society, 2000).
B. Nelson ‘Désir et consommation dans Au Bonheur des dames’, Les Cahiers naturalistes
vol.42 no.70, (1996) pp.19-34.
------ ‘Zola and the counter revolution: Au Bonheur des Dames’ Australian Journal of
French Studies vol. 30, no2,(1993) pp. 233-240.
On Paris in art
NB: King’s library has minimal holdings on art history, so you may need to use other libraries
such as Senate House or the National Art Library at the V&A.
Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Peintres cubistes (Paris: Berg, 1991) also available in English trans.
Norma Broude, ed., Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris (New
Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2002).
T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the art of Manet and his followers (Princeton :
Princeton UP, 1999).
James A. Ganz, Impressionist Paris: City of Light (London and NY: Prestel, 2010).
Robert Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society (New Haven: Yale UP, 1988).
Philip Nord, Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century (London:
Routledge, 2000).
Theodore Reff, Manet and Modern Paris (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982).
Virginia Spate, Orphism : the Evolution of Non-figurative painting in Paris, 1910-1914 (Oxford:
Clarendon, 1989).
Mary Tompkins Lewis, ed., Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (Berkeley and
LA: University of California Press, 2007).
On Apollinaire
Scott Bates, Guillaume Apollinaire (New York: Twayne, 1989).
Roger Little, Guillaume Apollinaire (London: Athlone, 1976).
Timothy Mathews, Reading Apollinaire: Theories of Poetic Language (Manchester: MUP, 1990).
Apollinaire en archipel, textes réunis par Laurence Campa, Revue des sciences humaines, no 307,
juillet-septembre 2012..
On Carné
Dudley Andrew, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film (Princeton: Princeton
UP, 1995).
Dudley Andrew & Steven Ungar, Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (Cambridge MA:
Harvard Belknap, 2008).
Edward Baron-Turk, Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1989).
Robert Chazal, Marcel Carné (Paris: Seghers , 1965).
On Aragon and surrealism
Walter Benjamin, ‘Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia’ trans. by
Edmund Jephcott, in One-Way Street (London: Verso , 1985).
André Breton, Manifestes du surréalisme (Paris: Folio, 1973) also available in English translation.
Margaret Cohen, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).
Hal Foster, Compulsive Beauty (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992).
Johanna Malt, Obscure Objects of Desire (Oxford: OUP, 2004) esp. chapter 2.