Title The fallen veil : a literary and cultural history of the photographic nude in nineteenth-century France / Raisa Adah Rexer

Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations Series Material Texts Material texts. Contents PART I The Second Empire -- CHAPTER 1 Art, Obscenity, and Censorship: 1839-1870 -- CHAPTER 2 The Judgment of Phryne, or, The Model's Meaning -- CHAPTER 3 Baudelaire's Bodies -- CHAPTER 4 Manette Salomon and Anti-Modernity -- PART II The Third Republic -- CHAPTER 5 The Rise of an International Industry: 1870-1900 -- CHAPTER 6 The Dangerous Streets -- CHAPTER 7 Nana in the Nude -- CHAPTER 8 Maizeroy and the Feminist Photo-Novel Summary Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form were produced in France. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Adah Rexer recounts the history of these images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2021) Subject Literature and photography -- France -- History -- 19th century French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Photography of the nude -- History -- 19th century Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century Nude in art -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. French literature Literature and photography Nude in art Photography of the nude Photography -- Social aspects France Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0812297857 9780812297850

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