Paris, Imagined Capital: Economic Transition and Modernity (17th to 19th Centuries)

55:3 (2015) Fall
Editor(s): Andrew Billing, Juliette Cherbuliez

Table of Contents

• Paris as Capital, Capital in Paris
• Author(s): Andrew Billing, Juliette Cherbuliez
• Pages: 1 - 14

• The Eye of Paris, the Eye of France: Capital Bodies in Claude Billard’s La mort d’Henri IV
• Author(s): Anna Rosensweig
• Pages: 15 - 28

• Capitalising on the English Urban Model: The Writings of Miège (1685/1725) and Muralt (1725) and the Pitting of Economic Capital against the “Cultural Capital” of Paris
• Author(s): Emma Pauncefort
• Pages: 29 - 42

• How Bad Economic Memories are Made: John Law’s System in Les lettres persanes, Manon Lescaut, and “The Great Mirror of Folly”
• Author(s): Julia V. Douthwaite
• Pages: 43 - 58

• The Spectacle of Poverty: Marivaux’s Beggars and Chance in Enlightenment Paris
• Author(s): Masano Yamashita
• Pages: 59 - 71

• Dazzled, Blinded, and Numb: Commerce, Luxury, and the French Crisis of Corps, 1750–1789
• Author(s): Joseph D. Bryan
• Pages: 72 - 85

• Transforming Paris into an Industrial Capital: Competing Discourses (1750–1820)
• Author(s): Thomas Le Roux
• Pages: 86 - 99

• “Fictitious Capital”: Haussmannization and the (Un-)making of Second-Empire Paris
• Author(s): Niamh Sweeney
• Pages: 100 - 113

• Speculative Capital: Zola’s Repossession of Paris
• Author(s): Jessica Tanner
• Pages: 114 - 126

• Seriality and Modernity: L’almanach des Mystères de Paris
• Author(s): Bettina R. Lerner
• Pages: 127 - 139

• Le spleen de Paris, un Paris pour collectionneur?
• Author(s): Jean-Michel Gouvard
• Pages: 140 - 151