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• catalog abstract "In this ambitious and exciting work Richard Maxwell uses nineteenth-century urban fiction--particularly the novels of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens--to define a genre, the novel of urban mysteries. His title comes from the "mystery mania" that captured both sides of the channel with the runaway success of Eugene Sue's Les mysteres de Paris and G.W.M. Reynold's Mysteries of London. Richard Maxwell argues that within these extravagant but fact-obsessed narratives, the archaic form of allegory became a means for understanding modern cities. The city dwellers' drive to interpret linked the great metropolises with the discourses of literature and art (the primary vehicles of allegory). Dominant among allegorical figures were labyrinths, panoramas, crowds, and paperwork, and it was thought that to understand a figure was to understand the city with which it was linked. Novelists such as Hugo and Dickens had a special flair for using such figures to clarify the nature of the city. Maxwell draws from an array of disciplines, ideas, and contexts. His approach to the nature and evolution of the mysteries genre includes examinations of allegorical theory, journalistic practice, the conventions of scientific inquiry, popular psychiatry, illustration, and modernized wonder tales (such as Victorian adaptations of the Arabian Nights). In The Mysteries of Paris and London Maxwell employs a sweeping vision of the nineteenth century and a formidable grasp of both popular culture and high culture to decode the popular mysteries of the era and to reveal man's evolving consciousness of the city. His style is elegant and lucid. It is a book for anyone curious about the fortunes of the novel in the nineteenth century, the cultural history of that period, particularly in France and England, the relations between art and literature, or the power of the written word to produce and present social knowledge.".
• catalog contributor b3619252.
• catalog coverage "London (England) In literature.".
• catalog coverage "Paris (France) In literature.".
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "Allegory and city life -- The labyrinths of Notre-Dame -- Ainsworth's Revelations : failed narrative -- Knotting the maze in Oliver Twist -- Creating the crowd in The old curiosity shop -- Repeating the singular in Martin Chuzzlewit -- The hunchback of Saint Dunstan-in-the-West : failed heroism -- Mystery and revelation in Bleak House -- Mystery and revelation in Les misérables -- Meryon's hybrid monster : failed knowledge -- Dickens's Arabian nights -- Dickens's omniscience -- The city and the cosmos, or, digging your own grave.".
• catalog description "In this ambitious and exciting work Richard Maxwell uses nineteenth-century urban fiction--particularly the novels of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens--to define a genre, the novel of urban mysteries. His title comes from the "mystery mania" that captured both sides of the channel with the runaway success of Eugene Sue's Les mysteres de Paris and G.W.M. Reynold's Mysteries of London. Richard Maxwell argues that within these extravagant but fact-obsessed narratives, the archaic form of allegory became a means for understanding modern cities. The city dwellers' drive to interpret linked the great metropolises with the discourses of literature and art (the primary vehicles of allegory). Dominant among allegorical figures were labyrinths, panoramas, crowds, and paperwork, and it was thought that to understand a figure was to understand the city with which it was linked. Novelists such as Hugo and Dickens had a special flair for using such figures to clarify the nature of the city. Maxwell draws from an array of disciplines, ideas, and contexts. His approach to the nature and evolution of the mysteries genre includes examinations of allegorical theory, journalistic practice, the conventions of scientific inquiry, popular psychiatry, illustration, and modernized wonder tales (such as Victorian adaptations of the Arabian Nights). In The Mysteries of Paris and London Maxwell employs a sweeping vision of the nineteenth century and a formidable grasp of both popular culture and high culture to decode the popular mysteries of the era and to reveal man's evolving consciousness of the city. His style is elegant and lucid. It is a book for anyone curious about the fortunes of the novel in the nineteenth century, the cultural history of that period, particularly in France and England, the relations between art and literature, or the power of the written word to produce and present social knowledge.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-406) and index.".
• catalog extent "xx, 415 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0813913411".
• catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
• catalog spatial "London (England) In literature.".
• catalog spatial "Paris (France) In literature.".
• catalog subject "823/.8 20".
• catalog subject "Cities and towns in literature.".
• catalog subject "City and town life in literature.".
• catalog subject "Comparative literature English and French.".
• catalog subject "Comparative literature French and English.".
• catalog subject "Detective and mystery stories History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Knowledge England London.".
• catalog subject "Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Knowledge London (England)".
• catalog subject "Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Knowledge France Paris.".
• catalog subject "Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 Knowledge Paris (France)".
• catalog subject "Literature, Comparative English and French.".
• catalog subject "Literature, Comparative French and English.".
• catalog subject "PR4592.L58 M38 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "Allegory and city life -- The labyrinths of Notre-Dame -- Ainsworth's Revelations : failed narrative -- Knotting the maze in Oliver Twist -- Creating the crowd in The old curiosity shop -- Repeating the singular in Martin Chuzzlewit -- The hunchback of Saint Dunstan-in-the-West : failed heroism -- Mystery and revelation in Bleak House -- Mystery and revelation in Les misérables -- Meryon's hybrid monster : failed knowledge -- Dickens's Arabian nights -- Dickens's omniscience -- The city and the cosmos, or, digging your own grave.".
• catalog title "The mysteries of Paris and London / Richard Maxwell.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".