Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Epoque

by Siân Reynolds

Book Overview

By the end of the nineteenth century, Paris was widely acknowledged as the cultural capital of the world, the home of avant-garde music and art, symbolist literature and bohemian culture. Edinburgh, by contrast, may still be thought of as a rather staid city of lawyers and Presbyterian ministers, academics and doctors. While its great days as a centre for the European Enlightenment may have been behind it, however, late Victorian Edinburgh was becoming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754634647
• ISBN13: 9780754634645
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"