Moving Forward, Holding Fast
The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture
Published on 1. January 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
239 pages
978-90-420-0224-1 (ISBN)
Description
An era of remarkable change and progress, the nineteenth century was in every sense of the word dynamic. In France, writers and artists reflected the ambivalence of their compatriots to the relentlessly changing world around them. The essays assembled here, selected from the Twenty-first annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium held at the University of Delaware in 1995, bear witness to this ambivalence. They also testify to an impressive array of approaches to the theme of movement, from the literal to the literary, the social and socially conscious to the unconscious. The three-part collection (Thrust and Drag, Travel and Exile, Uncontrolled Movement) features essays by well-known British, Canadian, French, and American scholars on such authors as Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Gautier, Maupassant, Stendhal, and Zola and on such artists as Puvis de Chavannes, Millet and Corot.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0224-1 (9789042002241)
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Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART I: THRUST AND DRAG. Jacques NEEFS: Vitesse de Stendhal. Graham FALCONER: Le mouvement a triomphe de la resistance: esquisse d'une phenomenologie balzacienne. Aline MURA: Mouvement et fixite dans La Recherche de l'Absolu de Balzac. Michael TILBY: Ursule Mirouet, or Balzac and the Coach to Paris. Angela MOGER: Placing Changes: Nineteenth-Century French Narrative on the Move. Marshall OLDS: Value and Social Mobility in Flaubert. PART II: TRAVEL AND EXILE. Louis FORESTIER: Mouvement et immobilite chez Guy de Maupassant. Jean-Claude SUSINI: Torneo/Borneo: Changements de cap et embrayage isotopique dans Any Where out of the World de Baudelaire. Benjamin McRAE AMOSS/Melanie HAWTHORNE: Il ne convient pas ... de regarder un spectacle si impropre: The Touristic Gaze as Theme and Structure in Gautier's Jettatura. Gretchen SCHULTZ: Loathsome Movement: Parnassian Politics and Villard's Revenge. Jennifer SHAW: The Wandering Gaze: Modernism, Subjectivity and the Art of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Francoise GAILLARD: Ou: L'inconnue d'un siecle qui pourtant va de l'avant. Rae Beth GORDON: Laughing Hysterically: Gesture, Movement and Spectatorship in Early French Cinema. Index.