The drowned muse : the Unknown Woman of the Seine's survivals from nineteenth-century modernity to the present /

'The Drowned Muse' charts the trajectory of representations of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand...

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Main Author:	Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle, 1979-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Series:	Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
Subjects:	Death in art. Death in literature. Women in art. Women in literature. Femininity in art. Femininity in literature. Death > Psychological aspects. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) Attitude to Death Mort dans l'art. Mort dans la littérature. Femmes dans l'art. Femmes dans la littérature. Féminité dans l'art. Féminité dans la littérature. Mort > Aspect psychologique. Beauté féminine (Esthétique) LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French. Death in art Death in literature Death > Psychological aspects Femininity in art Femininity in literature Women in art Women in literature Unknown Woman of the Seine. Electronic books.
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Summary:	'The Drowned Muse' charts the trajectory of representations of 'L'Inconnue de la Seine' in literature and the visual arts since the late 1890s and shows how the mask's metamorphoses track across the years provides points of negotiation through which to better understand modernity.
Physical Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780191779558 0191779555 9780191018978 019101897X