Art and Literature of the Second Empire

by David Baguley (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France; it examines the attitudes and positioning of artists and writers of the period in relation to a regime of dubious legitimacy, and the ways in which that regime exploited to its advantage the artistic capital available to it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719085857
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2012
Series:	Durham Modern Languages Series
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Baguley is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University and the University of Western Ontario.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Préface
ARTS
1. Landscape in the Second Empire- Patricia Mainardi
2. Manet and the politics of art- Robert Lethbridge
3. Thomas Couture- Richard Hobbs
4. L'art de la fete sous le Second Empire- Rémi Delisson
5. Des artistes et des écrivains hauts fonctionnaires du Second Empire-Catherine Vercueil-Simion 6. Rhetorique de la grâce ou les lettres de George Sand au lendemain du 2 décembre 1851- Marie- Cécile Levet
7. Rocambole, le Second Empire et le Paris d'Haussmann- Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze
8. Théophile Gautier- Peter Whyte
9. Claude Vignon- Laurence Brogniez
10. Zola et l'impressionisme- Gaël Bellalou