Jules Michelet : writing art and history in nineteenth-century France
Title:
Jules Michelet : writing art and history in nineteenth-century France
Writing art and history in nineteenth-century France
Author:
Hannoosh, Michèle, 1954- author.
ISBN:
9780271083575
9780271083568
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Publication Information:
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, c2019.
Physical Description:
xii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Art and the writing of history -- The Gothic drama of the middle ages : Reims and Strasbourg Cathedrals -- The unfinished Renaissance : Van Eyck, Dürer -- Civil war in the century of woman : Fontainebleau, Goujon, Pilon -- Nation and the people : Géricault.
Abstract:
"Demonstrates the crucial role that art-writing played as a tool of historical analysis in the work of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet's work, decisively influencing his most important historical concepts, his idea of history, and his view of the practice of the historian"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.
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