Imagery and ideology : fiction and painting in nineteenth-century France / William J. Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, William J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

French fiction.

Painting in literature.

Art and literature.

Physical Description:

269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: Imagery and Ideology: Literature and Painting 15

1 Ideology Laid Bare: Corneille and David 30

2 Imagery and Conflicting Ideologies: Chateaubriand and Girodet 51

3 The Modern Pygmalion: Balzac and Daumier 70

4 "Les trois glorieuses": Stendhal, Delacroix, and Hugo 92

5 Idealizing the Image of the Peasant: Sand, Holbein, and Millet 122

6 Salome's Dance: Flaubert, Moreau, and Huysmans 145

7 From Imagery to Ideology through Irony: Zola and Manet 166

8 Impressionist Ideology: Maupassant, Monet, and Renoir pere et fils 202

9 Kaleidoscopic Images of Algerian Women: Delacroix, Picasso, and Djebar 225

Conclusion: Reading in the Modern Mode 236.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-258) and index.

ISBN:

9780874139952

0874139953

OCLC:

123079572