Expositions. Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France. Translated by Katia Sainson-Frank and Lisa Maguire. Introduction by Richard Sieburth.

Berkeley; University of California Press, 1992. 23,5x16 cm. xv, (1 blank), 218, (1, 1 blank) pp. + 4 leaves of plates. Publisher's cloth with printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Name on front paste-down (Karl Steinick). "In 'Expositions', Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and Wolfgang Schivelbusch, 'Expositions' explores the spatial and cultural logic of Haussmann's sweeping Paris boulevards, classic novels by Balzac and Zola, the Bon Marché department store, the poetry of Baudelaire. and more." (front flap).