French literature, thought and culture in the nineteenth century : a material world : essays in honour of D.G. Charlton
List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - A Tribute to Donald Geoffrey Charlton and a Bibliography of his Writings C.W.Thompson - Romanticism and the Material World: Mind, Nature and Analogy C.Crossley - Materialism in Nineteenth-Century France M.Kelly - Managing Democratic Change: the Politics of Materialism in the Work of Alexis de Tocqueville D.Hanley - Producing, Retailing, Consuming: France 1830-70 R.Magraw - Things, Distinction and Decay in Nineteenth-Century French Literature B.Rigby - From Neo-Classical to Romantic Aesthetics: The Status of the Material World in Nineteenth-Century French Drama W.D.Howarth - Towards the Materiality of the Sign: Aesthetics and Poetics in Nineteenth-Century France D.Scott - No Object too Humble? Still Life Painting in French Art Criticism during the Second Empire J.Kearns - Unstable Objects: acropole and barbarie in Rimbaud's Villes I M.Treharne - Immaterial Views? Science, Intransigence and the Female Spectator of Modern French Art in 1879 A.Callen - Object Choices: Taste and Fetichism in Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale D.Knight - Bibliography - Index