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Michèle Hannoosh |
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Areas
Nineteenth-century French literature, art, and society; art criticism, relations between the arts; the city, Walter Benjamin, the history of modernity; the representation of history; parody; comparative literature Interests and Current Work My interests cover a broad range of topics in nineteenth-century literature, art, and culture. I have written on the theory of parody, on Decadence, the city, and modernity; I have developped a special interest in the relations between the arts over their histories. In the nineteenth-century context, I have worked extensively on art criticism and art theory, notably Baudelaire's essays on caricature and their place in his theory of modernity, and Delacroix's Journals as an effort to develop a writing proper to painting, to a painter's response to the world. I recently completed a major new edition, in French and with commentary, of Delacroix's Journals, a
project which has led me to consider the relations between autobiography and history: how a personal,
private diary can be a particular "écriture de l'histoire. "Eugène Delacroix. Journal, 2 vols.(Paris, José Corti, forthcoming October 2009). I am beginning research for a project on the importance of the visual arts in Michelet’s thought and work. I have recently completed an article on what the trial of Baudelaire’s “Fleurs du mal” can tell us about modes of reading in nineteenth-century France. "Delacroix, ‘J.’ and Still Life with Lobsters," The Burlington Magazine, September 2009 “Imagination esthétique et conscience historique : Jules Michelet et les arts plastiques,” in Romantismes. L’esthétique en acte, ed. Jean-Louis Cabanès (Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2009) “Between Ingres, Delacroix and the Pre-Raphaelites: A (No Longer) Anonymous Painter in Italy,” The Burlington Magazine, CL, 1262 (May 2008), pp. 301-311. “Théophile Silvestre’s Histoire des artistes vivants: Art Criticism and Photography,” The Art Bulletin LXXXVIII, 4 (December 2006), pp. 729-755 Baudelaire and Caricature. From the Comic to an Art of Modernity.
Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. Restoration France 1815-1830: Romanticism and the Arts Representing Revolution in Nineteenth-Century France Walter Benjamin Figuring the Artist in Nineteenth-Century France (team-taught course with Prof. Susan Siegfried of the History of Art Department) Poetry and Painting in Nineteenth-Century France Forms of Autobiography Recent undergraduate courses taught: Poésie du XIXe siècle L’Espagne romantique Literature on Trial (Romance Languages & Literatures course) Révolution, Restauration, Romantisme Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle Réalisme et idéalisme dans le roman français du XIXe siècle |