Download or read book French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century written by Brian Rigby and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-11-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume adopts a varied approach to the study of the 'material world' in the French literature, thought and visual arts of the 19th century. Contributors look not only at the Romantic and Realist transcendence of the Neo-classical heritage of abstraction and idealism, but also adopt modern critical perspectives to analyse central themes such as urbanisation, fetishism and the representation of the female body.