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Author Rexer, Raisa, author.

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]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Cover -- THE FALLEN VEIL -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 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 -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812297857
9780812297850