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Author Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle, 1979-

Title The drowned muse : the Unknown Woman of the Seine's survivals from nineteenth-century modernity to the present / Anne-Gaëlle Saliot
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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
Analysis Unknown Woman of the Seine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject 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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Death in art
Death in literature
Death -- Psychological aspects
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Femininity in art
Femininity in literature
Women in art
Women in literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191779558
0191779555
9780191018978
019101897X