The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

• Main Author: Nettleton, Claire (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; European literature.; Fine arts.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; European Literature.; Fine Arts.

The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature traces the evolution of the relationship between artists and animals in fiction from the Second Empire to the fin de siècle. This book examines examples of visual literature, inspired by the struggles of artists such as Edouard Manet and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 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
• 3. Buffon Versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin
• Part II The Decadent Animals of the Third Republic
• 4. The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue's "At the Berlin Aquarium"
• 5. Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau's In the Sky
• 6. Félline-Fatale: The New Woman as Cat-Woman in Rachilde's L'Animale
• 7. Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Naïveté.