Marginal Paris

Aurélie Van de Wiele received her Ph.D. in French Studies from Rice University and is currently an Associate Professor of French at Salisbury University. Her latest article examines Paris’ influence on Prévert’s social awareness and writing style (Cincinnati Romance Review).Carole Salmon holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Louisiana State University. She is currently a Professor of French and Linguistics at Furman University. In 2022, she published the edited volume Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today (Vernon Press).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsList of MapsIntroduction: Making the Parisian Darkness ShineAurélie Van de Wiele and Carole SalmonPart 1: 1800s–1850s1 Ultraviolent Thirdspace in Les Mystères de ParisEliza Jane Smith2 Hidden Figures: Women Writing the July Monarchy NightCharlotte Berkery3 Honoré de Balzac, “observateur poète” of the Parisian GutterCéline DuvernePart 2: 1850s–1970s4 Representations of the Banlieue in Émile Zola’s Rougon-MacquartIsabelle Schaffner5 The Rosny Brothers’ Paris in the Shadows of the FortifsNoémie Boeglin6 Poetics of the Parisian Underclass in the Works of Baudelaire and PrévertAurélie Van de WielePart 3: 1990s–Today7 Dustan’s Ghetto: Paris and the Marais as Loci of ExtremesOlivier Le Blond8 Paris “Taule de Merde”: Yémy’s Neocanonical French LiteratureDavid Spieser-Landes9 Giving a Voice to Sex Workers in Au cœur du bois (Drexel, 2021)Levilson ReisIndex