Title: Textual intersections : literature, history and the arts in nineteenth-century Europe /
Authors: Langford, Rachael, 1969-
Publisher: Rodopi,
Year: 2009
Subjects: European literature History and criticism.; Literature and history Europe History; Arts, European
Abstract: "This volume examines the multifaceted ways in which textual material in nineteenth-century European cultures intersected with non-literary cultural artefacts and concepts. The essays consider the presence of such diverse phenomena as the dandy, nationhood, diasporic identity, operatic and dramatic personae and effects, trapeze artists, paintings, and the grotesque and fantastic in the work of a variety of writers from France, Germany, Spain, Britain, Russia, Greece and Italy. The volume argues for a view of the long nineteenth century as a century of lively cultural dialogue and exchange between national and sub-national cultures, between 'high' and popular art forms, and between different genres and different media, and it will be of interest to general readers and scholars alike."--Publisher's description.
Contents: Introduction: intertextual, intermedial, intersections / Rachael Langford -- Figuring the artistic subject: a genealogy of nineteenth-century dandyism / Eduardo Ralickas -- Monsters and the mob: depictions of the grotesque on the Parisian stage, 1826-1836 / Sarah Hibberd -- Staging colours: Edward Gordon Craig and Wassily Kandinsky / Birgit Haas -- Symptoms of epistemological change: intersections with music and the visual arts in the German novel of the long nineteenth century / Gustav Frank -- How to get past your editor: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Don Juan as a palimpsest / Ricarda Schmidt -- Fragments and time: aspects of revolutionary change, literature and painting in Spain (1790-1870) / Andrew Ginger -- Geschichte Wallensteins: Ranke's problem of narrative - and Schiller's solution? / Steffan Davies -- Generical intersections in nineteenth-century French painting and literature: Manet's La Musique aux Tuileries and Baudelaire's Petits Poemes en prose / David Scott -- Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergere as an allegory of nostalgia / Albert Boime -- Theatrical intersections: an entry from the Goncourts' Journal, 1 March 1862 / Mairi Liston -- Literary acrobatics: Edmond de Goncourt's Les Freres Zemgano / Katherine Ashley -- Decapitation, dissection and symbolic deformity: the crisis of Italian Romanticism: Hugo, Piave and Boito / Deirdre O'Grady -- The effect of the pre-Raphaelites on the cultural consciousness of D'Annunzio / Giuliana Pieri -- Jewish motifs in mid-nineteenth century Russian music, art and art criticism / Eda Dobrovetsky -- Dreaming the myth of 'wholeness': romantic interpretations of ancient Greek music in Greece (1890-1910) / Anastasia Siopsi -- Proust and the fantastic: metaphor, metamorphosis and the visual arts / Marion Schmid.