Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris

385 Pages·2018·32.268 MB·English

by  Sun-Young Park

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Architecture, Urbanism,
and Hygiene in
Postrevolutionary Paris
Sun-Young Park
University of Pittsburgh Press
This book was published with support from Furthermore: A program of
the J. M. Kaplan Fund and the Department of History and Art History at
George Mason University. Illustrations in this book were funded in part by
the SAH/Mellon Author Awards of the Society of Architectural Historians
and the Textbook and Academic Authors Association.
Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260
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Book design by Regina Starace
for my parents,
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Contents
Acknowledgments | ix
Introduction | 3
1

The Soldier: Regenerating Nation and Masculinity
in the Military Gymnasium | 25
2
The Schoolboy: Forming Citizens, between the
Schoolroom and the Barracks | 72
Color plates follow page | 130
3
The Demoiselle: Reconstructing Gender in the
Educational Space | 143
4
The Lionne: Pursuing Health and Pleasure in Leisure
Gardens | 194
5
The Sportsman: Shaping Bourgeois Bodies in Urban
Recreational Grounds | 236
Epilogue. Rereading the Capital of Modernity | 294
Notes | 305
Bibliography | 335
Index | 365

Acknowledgments
This book originated in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
at Harvard University, and it could not have come into being, much less com-
pletion, without the support, patience, and always-inspiring commentary of my
mentors, Antoine Picon and Neil Levine. My interest in nineteenth-century
France was first sparked by Antoine Picon’s lectures on Saint-Simonianism and
Parisian maps in the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Buildings, Texts,
Contexts course in 2005, when I was a first-year master of architecture student.
The seminar he and Neil Levine co-taught in 2006 on nineteenth-century Paris
allowed me to develop this interest, through an investigation of the Second
Empire sewer system. As I made my way through the fetid depths of the Parisian
underworld to the more wholesome spaces examined in this book, they were an
unceasing source of intellectual and moral support, and I thank them for always
providing me with just the right amount of encouragement and/or skepticism
to keep my work moving forward.
In the course of beginning, developing, and writing this book, I have been
intellectually indebted to numerous people who may or may not be aware of
their influence on my work. At Harvard, I learned how to be both a scholar
and a teacher through the examples set by K. Michael Hays, Alina Payne, Allan
Brandt, Ann Blair, Charles Rosenberg, Erika Naginski, and Eve Blau. In Paris,
Rebecca Rogers directed me to some key sources in the early stages of research,
and provided detailed and incisive feedback on preliminary versions of several
chapters. Gabrielle Houbre kindly welcomed me into her Genres et sociétés semi-
nar in 2012, and gave me my first taste of French academic life. Annmarie Adams
shared valuable insights on my project in its early draft, and in her continued,
generous support, has served as a model for how I might myself assist junior
scholars later on.