F. W. J. Hemmings

Culture and Society in France 1789-1848 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book complements the author's earlier volume on Culture and Society in France 1848-1898. It deals with the interaction of social history and cultural history, covering in succession the Revolutionary period, the Napoleonic Empire, the Restoration and the July Monarchy. The scope of the book embraces literature (the drama, poetry and the novel), the art of the Revolution and of Romanticism, and to a lesser extent music (including the opera), sculpture and architecture. Influential figures such as Jacques-Louis David, Stendhal, Berlioz, Victor Hugo and others have their place in the survey, together with others prominent in their time hut less well known today. Attention is drawn to phenomena such as the rise of the commercial theatre, and the assembling under Napoleon's aegis of the first public art gallery in Europe, the Musée du Louvre. The survey brings together all the disparate strands to present a coherent picture of the cultural life of France as it evolved during the sixty momentous years between the French Revolution and the upheaval of 1848.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448204632
• Artikelnr.: 38312281

Autorenporträt

Frederick William John Hemmings was born in Southampton in 1920. Hemmings served in the Second World War, decrypting German codes in the Army Intelligence Corps, but in 1946 he returned to academic life in Oxford, completing his DPhil in 1949, a groundbreaking study that was published the following year by Oxford University Press: The Russian Novel in France 1884-1914.

Hemmings made his mark as a pioneer of Zola studies and is known as the foremost Zola critic in the English-speaking world. Further studies on Zola and Stendhal were published in later years, as were books on two other major 19th-century French writers: The King of Romance: A Portrait of Alexandre Dumas (1979) and Baudelaire the Damned (1982). This project of Balzacian and Zolaesque proportions was realised all the more remarkably during a busy nine-year term of office as head of the French department at Leicester University, where he was a hugely respected literary scholar.

Hemmings was twice married and left behind one son and one daughter when he died in Leicester in 1997.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 On the Eve of the Revolution Laclos: Les Liaisons
dangereuses Beaumarchais: Le Mariage de Figaro David: Le Serment des
Horaces 2 The Revolution David and Talma The Coming of the Commercial
Theatre Ideology and the Stage Music and the Revolution The Festivals
Painting during the Revolution The Post-Thermidorian Reaction 3 The
Napoleonic Age The Founding of the Musée du Louvre Art as the Spoils of War
Napolean, Patron of the Arts Architecture under the Empire Literature in
the Provinces The Novel of Terror The Melodrama The Literature of the
Emigration The Literature of the Opposition 4 The Restoration: Louis XVIII
The Social Background The Aftermath of Waterloo: Delavigne and Beranger
Censorship under the Restoration Stage Sets, Panorama, Dioramas Gericault
The Anglo-German Cultural Invasion Stendhal, Delecluze and the Liberal
Romantics Royalist Romanticism 5 Romanticism at Flood-Tide: The Reign of
Charles X 1824: A Turning-Point Ingres Delacroix The Arsenal Group The
Shakespeare Season at the Odeon Berlioz and the Romantic Revolution in
Music Scribe and the Vaudeville Talma, Taylor and the Reform of the
Comedie-Francaise Hugo's Cenacle The Triumph of Romanticism on the Stage 6
The July Monarchy The New Novel Booksellers, Book-Buyers and Book-Borrowers
The Cultural Consequences of Saint-Simon The Jeunes-France Star Actos The
Decline of the Romantic Drama Grand Opera Public Concerts and Private
Recitals The Art World: Producers and Consumres Commissioned Art The
roman-feuilleton Notes Bibliography