Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration
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Alfred De Musset
Animal Kingdom
animaux
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Autre Monde
Book Illustration
Boulevard Des Italiens
castex
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Category=DSB
Category=DSBF
Category=KNT
Category=WFA
charivari
Contemporary Society
cultural production history
De Grandlieu
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eq_business-finance-law
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georges
Grandville's Work
Grandville’s Work
illustrated book market transformation
July Monarchy
La Plume
La Presse
La Rabouilleuse
La Silhouette
Le Charivari
Le Crayon
Le Diable
Le Feuilleton
Le Magasin Pittoresque
Le Voleur
les
Les Animaux
literary illustration studies
macaire
Madame Hanska
men
nineteenth-century French literature
pierre
publishing industry France
Restif De La Bretonne
robert
Romanticism to Realism
Satirical Press
Uninvited Guest
visual satire
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409418085
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, Keri Yousif explores the complex literary and artistic relationship between the novelist Honoré de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville during the French July Monarchy (1830-1848). Both collaborators and rivals, these towering figures struggled for dominance in the Parisian book trade at the height of the Romantic revolution and its immediate aftermath. Both men were social portraitists who collaborated on the influential encyclopedic portrayal of nineteenth-century society, Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. However, their collaboration soon turned competitive with Grandville's publication of Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, a visual parody of Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée. Yousif investigates Balzac's and Grandville's individual and joint artistic productions in terms of the larger economic and aesthetic struggles within the nineteenth-century arena of cultural production, showing how writers were forced to position themselves both in terms of the established literary hierarchy and in relation to the rapidly advancing image. As Yousif shows, the industrialization of the illustrated book spawned a triadic relationship between publisher, writer, and illustrator that transformed the book from a product of individual genius to a cooperative and commercial affair. Her study represents a significant contribution to our understanding of literature, art, and their interactions in a new marketplace for publication during the fraught transition from Romanticism to Realism.
Keri Yousif is Associate Professor of French at Indiana State University, USA.
