In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that ornament, far from being a simple accessory, rai

Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan'

French realist texts are driven by representations of the body and depend on corporeality to generate narrative intrigue. But anxieties around bodily representa

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