Related Books

Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Miranda Gill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in 19th-century Paris? Drawing on etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatis
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Language: en
Pages: 342
Authors: Miranda Gill
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-15 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class
Medicine and Maladies
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-03 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Medicine and Maladies explores the aesthetic, medical, and socio-political contexts that informed depictions of illness and disease in nineteenth-century France
Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Sotirios Paraschas
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspect
The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Marilyn R. Brown
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-08 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel L