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Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century (slides)
Mass Culture and the Modern City (slides)
Take-home midterm was distributed in class. If you missed class, you can get it here. It is DUE, Friday, Oct. 10 by 4:00 p.m.--hard copy in my mailbox in the History Department office, Ballantine 742.
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Background Reading:
Popkin, Modern France, 125-150.
Key Readings (read these for Wednesday's class):
Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863) sections 3, 4, and 9 are available on-line.
Linda Nochlin, Realism (1971), short selection on e-reserves. (you should have read this for last week's discussion class)
Further Reading:
Leora Auslander, Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (1996).
Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century," (on-line); this is a preliminary sketch of a much longer, still unfinished work, The Arcades Project (English trans. 1999).
T.J. Clark, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet
and his Followers (1985; 1999).
Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer: Vision and Modernity in the Ninteenth Century (1990).
Michael Fried, Manet's Modernism: or, the Face of Painting in the 1860s (1996).
David P. Jordan, Transforming Paris: the Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann (1995).
Patrice Higonnet, Paris, Capital of the World (2002).
Michael Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department
Store (1980). [see also the Bibliothèque Nationale's on-line exhibition about Au Bonheur des dames (The Ladies' Paradise), Zola's novel about a big Paris department store.]
Philip Nord, Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment (1986).
Donald Reid, Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Reality and Representation (1991).
Jerrold Seigel, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (1980).
Rebecca Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (2000), especially chapters 5-8.
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