Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914)
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Author_Elizabeth Emery
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Celebrity Homes
Contre Sainte Beuve
Des Esseintes
Dornac's Photographs
Dornac’s Photographs
Edmond De Goncourt
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Francisque Sarcey
French Writer House Museum
Gaston Tissandier
Grands Hommes
House Museums
houses
Hugo's House
Hugo’s House
La Collection
La Maison De
La Revue
Lieux De
Maison De
Paul Meurice
Pierre Loti
Place Des Vosges
Robert De Montesquiou
Tanagra Statuettes
Wax Museum
Writer House
Writer House Museum
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138251564
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this and other questions by providing an overview of the social forces that brought writers' homes to the forefront of the French imagination at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This study analyzes representations of the apartments and houses of Corneille, Hugo, Balzac, Dumas, Sand, Zola, Loti, Montesquiou, Mallarmé, and Proust, among others, arguing that the writer's home became a contested space and an important part of the French patrimony at this time. This is the first book to emphasize the house museum as an essentially modern construct, and to trace the history of ideas leading to its institutionalization in twentieth-century France. The interdisciplinary study also brings new attention to the importance of photojournalism for fin-de-siècle France - and brings to light fascinating and forgotten examples of 'at home' photography by Dornac and Henri Mairet. Elizabeth Emery provides a fresh and compelling perspective on conjunctions between visual, literary, and material cultures.
Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University, USA.
