Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century

Richard Hibbitt is Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Leeds, UK, where he directs the Centre for World Literatures. His publications include the monograph Dilettantism and its Values (2006) and the co-edited volume Saturn’s Moons: W.G. Sebald – A Handbook (with Jo Catling; 2011).

Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- List of Illustrations.- 1. Introduction: Other Capitals of the Nineteenth Century, Richard Hibbitt.- 2. Local-Colour Literature and Cultural Nations, Josephine Donovan.- 3. They Fluttered like Moths: Exile and Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Germaine de Staël and Georg Brandes, Lynn R. Wilkinson.- 4. Crossing the Bridge: Constantinople Crowds and the Cityscape in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues, Hande Tekdemir.- 5. ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: Image of a Colonial Metropolis, Timothy Chandler.- 6. Capitalising (on) World Literature: Brussels as Shadow Capital of Modernity/Modernism, Theo D’haen.- 7. The Rise of a Small Cultural Capital: Brussels at the End of the Nineteenth Century, Laurence Brogniez, Tatiana Debroux and Judith le Maire.- 8. From Les Mystères de Paris to Les Mystères de Saint-Pétersbourg: Transfers, Translations and Reconstructions, Anna Lushenkova-Foscolo.- 9. (De-)Localising Capital: Lines of Flight from Zola’s Mystères de Marseille, Michael G. Kelly.- 10. Bayreuth: Capital and Anti-Capital, Nicholas Vazsonyi.- 11. Luminous Munich and Beyond: the ‘Schwabinger Bohème’, Margit Dirscherl.- 12. The Symbolist Novel as Transnational Capital, Richard Hibbitt.- Index.-