Tales of Two Cities: Architecture, Print and Early Guidebooks to Paris and London

Tales of Two Cities: Architecture, Print and Early Guidebooks to Paris and London

This pioneering paper is the first to consider the contribution of a new type of urban literature to perceptions and portrayals of the city in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It focuses on London and Parisian guidebooks, a genre that has been little studied to date, particularly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth McKellar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-07-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
London
Paris
architecture
urbanism
literature
guidebooks
tourism
seventeenth century
eighteenth century
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/2/3/328

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