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An investigation of Paris as an urban space and a poetic site of remembrance.  Experiencing urban space conjures visions of the past alongside contemplation of the present. This edited volume investigates this feeling of seeing double by investigating Paris—a city that has come to embody the tension of this sensation—through a dual lens of nostalgia and modernity.  Contributors survey Paris in film, poetry, and prose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, presenting the city as both a concrete reality and as a collection of the myths associated with it. Interdisciplinary and deeply researched, the essays distill complex concepts of the urban, the textual, and the modern for a wide readership.

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Alistair Rolls is associate professor of French studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research is in the fields of twentieth-century French and English literature, with an especial focus on crime fiction. Marguerite Johnson is professor of classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her areas of expertise include classical reception, including the influence of Sappho in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Paris.

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