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Cooking with Mud The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction

Trotter, David
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198185031
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
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Oxford University Press
Vekt
608 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
350

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Trotter, David

Cooking with Mud The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction

Trotter, David
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk
Trotter, David
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk
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To the extent that relativity and randomness will emerge as the hallmark of twentieth-century art and fiction, Trotter has shown, in a most exemplary fashion, how these elements are rooted in the last four decades of the nineteenth century

Nineteenth-Century French Studies

An impressive and useful book, witty, learned and elegantly written

Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement

It seems safe to assume that people started to drop things as soon as they started to pick them up, and that even the most aboriginal litterings and spillages did not pass entirely without comment. Mess is age-old and universal, both as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the nineteenth century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake: a development which had something to do with the gradual fading, amid a great deal of reassertion, of doctrines of determinism; and something to do with democracy, which would be hard to imagine without litter. Messes, like modern identities, happen by accident; their representation, in painting and fiction, made it possible to think boldly and inventively about chance. Ranging widely–from Turner to Courbet, Cézanne, and Degas, and from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov, Gissing, and the New Woman writers–this book outlines a style of commentary on modern life in which the ancient dichotomy of order and chaos (culture and anarchy) was supplanted, at least temporarily, by a distinction between different kinds and qualities of mess.
Les mer
Mess is age-old and universal, both as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the 19th century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake.
Les mer
Introduction ; Turner's Litter ; Spitting Mad: Melville's Juices ; Mess and Modernity ; Modern Writers I: English Mess ; Modern Writers II: English Nausea ; Modernity and Its Discontents: Flaubert, Manet, Zola, Cezanne, Maupassant ; Gissing's Fry-Ups: Mess, Waste, and the Definition of Working-Class Culture ; Body Politics: Mess, Marriage, and the New Woman ; Degas's Studio ; Conclusion ; Index
Les mer
To the extent that relativity and randomness will emerge as the hallmark of twentieth-century art and fiction, Trotter has shown, in a most exemplary fashion, how these elements are rooted in the last four decades of the nineteenth century
Les mer
`this lively and sharp original study offers a zesty and sometimes brilliant excursion into the emergence of modern culture, and its traces in the fiction and art of nineteenth-century Europe ... Trotter's range is marvellous, and part of the inspiring pleasure of this book comes from its brilliant connections and fresh comparisons made in the course of excursions across the international terrain of art and literature ... Trotter provides his reader with a capacious, energetic study, written with style, and perceptive to the highest degree.' Francis O'Gorman, The Review of English Studies, New Series `An impressive and useful book, witty, learned and elegantly written' Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement
Les mer
A fascinating and engagingly written study of how an interest in mess emerged in Western cultureDSin graphic images and in fictionDSduring the later nineteenth century. Ranges widely across novels and short stories, from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov to Gissing, and across the work of visual artists from Turner to Manet and Degas. Illustrated with many of the paintings discussed.
Les mer
A fascinating and engagingly written study of how an interest in mess emerged in Western cultureDSin graphic images and in fictionDSduring the later nineteenth century. Ranges widely across novels and short stories, from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov to Gissing, and across the work of visual artists from Turner to Manet and Degas. Illustrated with many of the paintings discussed.
Les mer

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To the extent that relativity and randomness will emerge as the hallmark of twentieth-century art and fiction, Trotter has shown, in a most exemplary fashion, how these elements are rooted in the last four decades of the nineteenth century

Nineteenth-Century French Studies

An impressive and useful book, witty, learned and elegantly written

Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement

It seems safe to assume that people started to drop things as soon as they started to pick them up, and that even the most aboriginal litterings and spillages did not pass entirely without comment. Mess is age-old and universal, both as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the nineteenth century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake: a development which had something to do with the gradual fading, amid a great deal of reassertion, of doctrines of determinism; and something to do with democracy, which would be hard to imagine without litter. Messes, like modern identities, happen by accident; their representation, in painting and fiction, made it possible to think boldly and inventively about chance. Ranging widely–from Turner to Courbet, Cézanne, and Degas, and from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov, Gissing, and the New Woman writers–this book outlines a style of commentary on modern life in which the ancient dichotomy of order and chaos (culture and anarchy) was supplanted, at least temporarily, by a distinction between different kinds and qualities of mess.
Les mer
Mess is age-old and universal, both as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the 19th century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake.
Les mer
Introduction ; Turner's Litter ; Spitting Mad: Melville's Juices ; Mess and Modernity ; Modern Writers I: English Mess ; Modern Writers II: English Nausea ; Modernity and Its Discontents: Flaubert, Manet, Zola, Cezanne, Maupassant ; Gissing's Fry-Ups: Mess, Waste, and the Definition of Working-Class Culture ; Body Politics: Mess, Marriage, and the New Woman ; Degas's Studio ; Conclusion ; Index
Les mer
To the extent that relativity and randomness will emerge as the hallmark of twentieth-century art and fiction, Trotter has shown, in a most exemplary fashion, how these elements are rooted in the last four decades of the nineteenth century
Les mer
`this lively and sharp original study offers a zesty and sometimes brilliant excursion into the emergence of modern culture, and its traces in the fiction and art of nineteenth-century Europe ... Trotter's range is marvellous, and part of the inspiring pleasure of this book comes from its brilliant connections and fresh comparisons made in the course of excursions across the international terrain of art and literature ... Trotter provides his reader with a capacious, energetic study, written with style, and perceptive to the highest degree.' Francis O'Gorman, The Review of English Studies, New Series `An impressive and useful book, witty, learned and elegantly written' Clive Wilmer, Times Literary Supplement
Les mer
A fascinating and engagingly written study of how an interest in mess emerged in Western cultureDSin graphic images and in fictionDSduring the later nineteenth century. Ranges widely across novels and short stories, from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov to Gissing, and across the work of visual artists from Turner to Manet and Degas. Illustrated with many of the paintings discussed.
Les mer
A fascinating and engagingly written study of how an interest in mess emerged in Western cultureDSin graphic images and in fictionDSduring the later nineteenth century. Ranges widely across novels and short stories, from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov to Gissing, and across the work of visual artists from Turner to Manet and Degas. Illustrated with many of the paintings discussed.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198185031
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
608 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
146 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
350

Forfatter
Trotter, David

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