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The Europeans : three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture
- Title
- The Europeans : three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture / Orlando Figes.
- Author
- Figes, Orlando
- Publication
- London : Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-152 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 551 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- This is a dazzling, highly original account of three remarkable individuals and their part in creating the matchless new culture of 19th-century Europe. This book is both a highly original, panoramic account of how in the 19th century huge aesthetic, economic, technological and legal changes created, for the first time, a genuinely pan-European culture - and an intimate story of a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis. Their passionate, ambitious lives caught up an astonishing array of writers, composers and painters all trying to navigate through an ever more prosperous, demanding and international culture. This culture - through trains, telegraphs and printing - allowed artists of all kinds to create a precarious but real living, shuttling back and forth, from the British Isles to Imperial Russia. The Europeans is Orlando Figes' masterpiece. Surprising, beautifully written, it describes huge events through intimate details, little-known stories and through the lens of Turgenev and the Viardots' touching, strange love triangle. Events which we now see as central to European high culture are made completely fresh, allowing the reader to revel in the sheer precariousness with which the great salons, premiers and bestsellers came into existence.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-520) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-152
- ISBN
- 9780241004890
- 0241004896
- OCLC
- 1121050680
- Author
- Figes, Orlando, author.
- Title
- The Europeans : three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture / Orlando Figes.
- Publisher
- London : Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-520) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1789-1900
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-152