French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: A Material World

Front Matter....Pages i-x
A Tribute to Donald Geoffrey Charlton and a Bibliography of his Writings....Pages 1-8
Romanticism and the Material World: Mind, Nature and Analogy....Pages 9-22
Materialism in Nineteenth-century France....Pages 23-41
Managing Democratic Change: The Politics of Materialism in the Work of Alexis de Tocqueville....Pages 42-58
Producing, Retailing, Consuming: France 1830–70....Pages 59-85
Things, Distinction and Decay in Nineteenth-century French Literature....Pages 86-104
From Neo-classical to Romantic Aesthetics: The Status of the Material World in Nineteenth-century French Drama....Pages 105-127
Towards the Materiality of the Sign: Aesthetics and Poetics in Nineteenth-century France....Pages 128-147
No Object too Humble? Still Life Painting in French Art Criticism during the Second Empire....Pages 148-168
Unstable Objects: Acropole and Barbarie in Rimbaud’s Villes I....Pages 169-183
Immaterial Views? Science, Intransigence and the Female Spectator of Modern French Art in 1879....Pages 184-197
Object Choices: Taste and Fetishism in Flaubert’s L’Education sentimentale....Pages 198-217
Back Matter....Pages 218-233