Textual Intersections: Literature, History and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe(129 Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Rachael Langford: Introduction: Intertextual, Intermedial, Intersections Eduardo Ralickas: Figuring the Artistic Subject: a Genealogy of Nineteenth-Century Dandyism Sarah Hibberd: Monsters and the Mob: Depictions of the Grotesque on the Parisian Stage, 1826-1836 Birgit Haas: Staging Colours: Edward Gordon Craig and Wassily Kandinsky Gustav Frank: Symptoms of Epistemological Change: Intersections with Music and the Visual Arts in the German Novel of the Long Nineteenth Century Ricarda Schmidt: How to Get Past Your Editor: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Don Juan as a Palimpsest Andrew Ginger: Fragments and Time: Aspects of Revolutionary Change, Literature and Painting in Spain (1790-1870) Steffan Davies: Geschichte Wallensteins: Ranke’s Problem of Narrative – and Schiller’s Solution? David Scott: Generical Intersections in Nineteenth-Century French Painting and Literature: Manet’s La Musique aux Tuileries and Baudelaire’s Petits Poèmes en prose Albert Boime: Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère as an Allegory of Nostalgia Mairi Liston: Theatrical Intersections: an Entry from the Goncourts’ Journal, 1 March 1862 Katherine Ashley: Literary Acrobatics: Edmond de Goncourt’s Les Frères Zemgano Deirdre O’Grady: Decapitation, Dissection and Symbolic Deformity: the Crisis of Italian Romanticism: Hugo, Piave and Boito Guiliana Pieri: The Effect of the Pre-Raphaelites on the Cultural Consciousness of D’Annunzio Eda Dobrovetsky: Jewish Motifs in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russian Music, Art and Art Criticism Anastasia Siopsi: Dreaming the Myth of ‘Wholeness’: Romantic Interpretations of Ancient Greek Music in Greece (1890-1910) Marion Schmid: Proust and the Fantastic: Metaphor, Metamorphosis and the Visual Arts Notes on Contributors Index of Proper Names