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of those serendipitous events that scholars have come to expect, an erroneous book delivery at the New York Public Library resulted in [her] receiving Alexandre Dumas's Mes Mémoires, wherein [she] discovered his essay `Cuckoldry, Adultery and the Civil Code.'" Oh les beaux jours... Illouz, Jean-Nicolas. Le Symbolisme. Paris: Le Livre de Poche, Références, 2004. ISBN 2-253-10799-9 Marshall C. Olds, University of Nebraska-Lincoln As emphases in literary studies have shifted away from structuralist, semiotic, and other modes of reading informed by theory toward historically-oriented esthetic and cultural analysis, we have needed a new examination of Symbolism that would account for its complexities both as a literary and artistic movement and as a "compound moment" in literary and cultural history. Jean-Nicolas Illouz has provided the foundation for such a reexamination. His study is, to my knowledge, the most complete and nuanced overview of the movement that we have, bringing together in a historically informed and carefully researched reading of Symbolism as both the point de rencontre for a multitude of literary, artistic and cultural currents of the French and Belgian finde-siècle and also as a decisive moment in the founding of literary Modernism. Literary histories have usually made the distinction
Nineteenth Century French Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Nov 14, 2005
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