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Book SynopsisClaire Moran is Senior Lecturer in French, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
Trade ReviewThis volume contributes remarkably to the field of research on domestic space. It is an essential contribution to the discussion of spatiality of France and Belgium through its innovative and multidisciplinary themes and approaches. -- Camilla Murgia * Modern Language Review *
This brilliant and impressively edited anthology encompasses an eloquent analysis of how literature and art reflected the transience in domestic interiors. The chapters of this absorbing and revealing book portray domesticity as a main narrative via the distinctive contributions by the valuable eminent scholars in the field. -- Esra Bici Nasir * Journal of Design History *
Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Cultures of Domestic Space in the Nineteenth Century
Claire Moran 1. ‘Louis-Philippe ou l’intérieur’: The Emergence of the Modern Interior in the Visual Culture of the July Monarchy
Matteo Piccioni 2. Shattered Spaces: The Domestic Interior in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Anne Green 3. Art and Domestic Space: Continuity and Change in Private Collectors’ Interiors in Belgium,
c. 1830-1930
Ulrike Müller and Marjan Sterckx 4. Inside/Out: Modernity and the Domestic Interior in Belgian Art and Literature
Claire Moran 5. A Place to Grieve: Georges Rodenbach, Marcel Proust
Nathalie Aubert 6. ‘Cromedeyre tout entier est une seule maison.’ The Domestic Interior in Jules Romains’
Cromedeyre-le-vieil Dominique Bauer 7. Impressionist Interiors and Modern Womanhood: The representation of domestic space in the art of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt
Sinéad Furlong-Clancy 8. Bricolage and the domestic interior in the French feminine press of the 1860s and 1870s, from
La Ménagère to Stéphane Mallarmé’s
La Dernière Mode Caroline Ardrey 9. The Bourgeois, their Homes and Sexualities in Colette’s
Claudine Aina Marti 10. Missing Affinities? Brussels Art Nouveau and Belgian Symbolism
Aniel Guxholli 11. Villa Khnopff: The Home of an Artist and the Palace of Art
Maria Golovteeva 12. The Bedroom as Metonymic Portrait:
Ekphrasis, Balzac and Impressionism in the Nineteenth Century
Jill Owen 13. Private Rooms of the Cubist Still Life
Anna Jozefacka Index
