DREAM CITIES
UTOPIA AND PROSE BY POETS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
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Dream Cities
Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France
GREG KERR
Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge 2013
First published 2013
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Contents
Guide
I would firstly like to register a debt of gratitude to David Scott for his dedicated and unfailingly perceptive supervision of the doctoral thesis on which this book is based, and for prompting me often to see images where first I saw words. Thanks are also due to my thesis examiner Patrick ODonovan for the invaluable advice he has offered on this project at different stages, and to Legendas anonymous reader who provided valuable comments on the final stages of the manuscript. At Legenda I have also benefitted from the discernment and quiet astuteness of Graham Nelson and Richard Correll who have overseen the completion of the text.
I also wish to note how indebted I am to Amrico Nunes da Silva for kindling my interest in Saint-Simonianism during a series of seminars at Universit Paris VII Diderot in 200102. I am also thankful to the Irish Research Council for the Humanities & Social Sciences for the award of a postgraduate scholarship. Additional thanks are due to Damian Catani, Susan Harrow and Michael Kelly for advice received in the latter stages of the project, as well as to my colleagues at Lancaster University. Beatrice Kerr and Eileen Kelly deserve my utmost appreciation for their unflagging encouragement. Finally, I want to thank Sara Bouskela for her measureless support, sensitivity, and the example of assiduous craft brought to the finest of details.
By kind permission of the editors, of this book feature reworked versions of some chapters from edited volumes, and one journal article, which first appeared in the following publications: Gautier, Boileau and Chenavard: Utopian Architectures of the Temple in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, in Imagining and Making the World: Reconsidering Architecture and Utopia , ed. by Nathaniel Coleman (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011), pp. 5780; Nous avons enlac le globe de nos rseaux...: Spatial Structure in Saint-Simonian Poetics, in Histoires de la Terre , ed. by Louise Lyle and David McCallam (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 91104; The Modern Urban in the Journalistic Prose of Thophile Gautier: Crayonnons la hte... , in Aesthetics of Dislocation in French and Francophone Literature and Art: Strategies of Representation , ed. by Daisy Connon, Gillian Jein and Greg Kerr (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2009), pp. 16582; Rhetorics of Transformation in Rimbauds Illuminations , Dix-neuf , 14.1 (April 2010), 2032, courtesy of W. S. Maney & Son Ltd: ; available online at .
Front Cover: Philippe-Joseph Machereau, Femme colossale assise |
Frontispiece: Charles Baudelaire, Autoportrait (by permission of the Roger-Viollet photo agency) |
Au milieu de flammes, jaunes et bleues, allongeant leurs langues en spirales travers un nuage de noire fume, on [voit] plus rapide quun oiseau savancer la caravane des travailleurs, ambassade de paix avec ses churs nombreux et ses danseuses pares.