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Art and Literature of the Second Empire

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This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France.
  • 31 October 2012
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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.
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 200
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 31 October 2012
ISBN: 9780719085857
Format: Paperback
BISACs: History of art, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: general
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David Baguley is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University and the University of Western Ontario.

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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