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French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

A Material World

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Brian Rigby

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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Part of the book series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities (WSEH)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. A Tribute to Donald Geoffrey Charlton and a Bibliography of his Writings

    • C. W. Thompson
    Pages 1-8

  3. Romanticism and the Material World: Mind, Nature and Analogy

    • Ceri Crossley
    Pages 9-22

  4. Materialism in Nineteenth-century France

    • Michael Kelly
    Pages 23-41

  5. Managing Democratic Change: The Politics of Materialism in the Work of Alexis de Tocqueville

    • David Hanley
    Pages 42-58

  6. Producing, Retailing, Consuming: France 1830–70

    • Roger Magraw
    Pages 59-85

  7. Things, Distinction and Decay in Nineteenth-century French Literature

    • Brian Rigby
    Pages 86-104

  8. From Neo-classical to Romantic Aesthetics: The Status of the Material World in Nineteenth-century French Drama

    • William D. Howarth
    Pages 105-127

  9. Towards the Materiality of the Sign: Aesthetics and Poetics in Nineteenth-century France

    • David Scott
    Pages 128-147

  10. No Object too Humble? Still Life Painting in French Art Criticism during the Second Empire

    • James Kearns
    Pages 148-168

  11. Unstable Objects: Acropole and Barbarie in Rimbaud’s Villes I

    • Mark Treharne
    Pages 169-183

  12. Immaterial Views? Science, Intransigence and the Female Spectator of Modern French Art in 1879

    • Anthea Callen
    Pages 184-197

  13. Object Choices: Taste and Fetishism in Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale

    • Diana Knight
    Pages 198-217

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 218-233
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This volume adopts a varied approach to the study of the 'material world' in the French literature, thought and visual arts of the 19th century. Contributors look not only at the Romantic and Realist transcendence of the Neo-classical heritage of abstraction and idealism, but also adopt modern critical perspectives to analyse central themes such as urbanisation, fetishism and the representation of the female body.

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  • University of Warwick, UK

    Brian Rigby

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