Introduction

Other capitals of the nineteenth century

Richard Hibbitt

1-30

Local-colour literature and cultural nations

Josephine Donovan

33-50

They fluttered like moths

exile and cosmopolitanism in the work of Germaine de Staël and georg brandes

Lynn R. Wilkinson

51-67

Crossing the bridge

constantinople crowds and the cityscape in nineteenth-century travelogues

Hande Tekdemir

69-90

"Marvellous Melbourne"

image of a colonial metropolis

Timothy Chandler

91-110

The rise of a small cultural capital

Brussels at the end of the nineteenth century

Laurence Brogniez, Tatiana Debroux, Judith le Maire

129-157

From les mystères de Paris to les mystères de Saint-Pétersbourg

transfers, translations and reconstructions

Anna Lushenkova Foscolo

161-184

(De-)localising capital

lines of flight from Zola's mystères de Marseille

Michael G. Kelly

185-204

Bayreuth

capital and anti-capital

Nicholas Vazsonyi

205-222

Luminous Munich and beyond

the "Schwabinger bohème"

Margit Dirscherl

223-245

The symbolist novel as transnational capital

Richard Hibbitt

247-265