The traditional relationship between painting and literature underwent a profound change in nineteenth-century France. Painting progressively asserted its indep

In this innovative volume, literary critics and art historians explore the relationship between literature and the visual arts in 19th-century France. Eighteen

The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature traces the evolution of the relationship between artists and animals in fiction from the Second Emp

Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as w

During the nineteenth century, France experienced an unprecedented growth in the visual arts, and Paris was its center. French art became a universally accepted