The pen and the brush : how passion for art shaped nineteenth-century French novels / Anka Muhlstein...
The pen and the brush : how passion for art shaped nineteenth-century French novels / Anka Muhlstein...
The pen and the brush : how passion for art shaped nineteenth-century French novels / Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
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Publisher
New York : Other Press, [2017]
Call Numbers
G 2017/2925
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction : Art for all -- Balzac's paintbrush -- The painter and society -- Ambitions, success, and defeat -- Zola, the painters' friend -- The writer as a painter -- Zola's painters -- Repercussions : Huysmans and Maupassant -- Elstir : Prousts's master -- The painting as a novelist's tool -- C...
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Publisher
New York : Other Press, [2017]
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"Anka Muhlstein revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers--Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans, and Maupassant--through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts. She delves into the crucial role that painters play as characters in their novels, which she pairs with an explo...
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The pen and the brush : how passion for art shaped nineteenth-century French novels / Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228).
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©2017
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Call Numbers
G 2017/2925
Record Identifier
74VKVaQJJ3bM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaQJJ3bM
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ISBN
9781590518052
DDC
843.709357
MMS ID
991024104314002626
