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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Book Title: French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Book Subtitle: A Material World
Editors: Brian Rigby
Series Title: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11824-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1993
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-53266-9Published: 09 November 1992
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-11824-3Published: 10 November 1992
Series ISSN: 0956-5108
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 233
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Intellectual Studies

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A Tribute to Donald Geoffrey Charlton and a Bibliography of his Writings

Romanticism and the Material World: Mind, Nature and Analogy

Materialism in Nineteenth-century France

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

Producing, Retailing, Consuming: France 1830–70

Things, Distinction and Decay in Nineteenth-century French Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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