Bøger i Modernist Studies serien

For American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not: a milieu that nurtured the full expression of the creative imagination. How these expatriates interpreted and gave modernist shape to the myth of "the Paris moment" is the focus of Donald Pizer's study.

Taking a highly innovative approach to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, David Baguley entertains sources in a melange of media and forms, pictures, performances, spectacles, rituals, music, fiction, poems, plays, architecture, fashion, as well as Louis Napoleon's own writings, to explore how the ruler was represented, invented, and interpreted.