The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

By Claire Nettleton

Book Overview

1. Introduction 1.1 The Artist as Anarchist1.2 Historical Framework1.3 Theoretical Framework: The Modern Animal-The Nineteenth Century Meets Animal Studies?1.4 Chapter Summary
Part I: Behind Bars: Artists and Animals of the Second Empire
2. A Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt's Manette Salomon 2.1 Contemporary Views of the Visual, Literary Animal2.2 The Simian Artist2.3 The Jardin des Plantes: The Artistic Gateway2.4 Barbizon: The Peasant Artist
3. Buffon Versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in ?mile Zola's Th?r?se Raquin3.1 The Bourgeois and the Bull3.2 Painting with Mud3.3 The Naturalist ProjectPart II: The Decadent Animals of the Third Republic4. The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue's "At the Berlin Aquarium"4.1 Literary Aquariums4.2 Through the Eyes of Crustaceans4.3 Visions of the Orient
5. Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau's In the Sky5.1 The Fly-Poet and the Spider-Artist: Writing and Painting as Animalistic Processes5.2 Darwin and Decadence: The Splendor of Decay and Horror5.3 Enter the Void: The Spontaneous Generation of Art
6. F?line-Fatale: The New Woman as Catwoman in Rachilde's L'Animale 6.1 Animale des Lettres6.2 The Second Species: Felines, Femininity and the Avant-garde6.3 Feline Frankenstein: Rachilde's Artificial Artist-Animals6.4 From Balconies to Glass Ceilings: Working Women in Modernity6.5 Cinematic Cats6.6 Author Animal
7. Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Na?vet?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030193470
• ISBN13: 9783030193478
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"