The Renaissance in the Nineteenth CenturyThe nineteenth century witnessed rapid economic and social developments, profound political and intellectual upheaval, and startling innovations in art and literature. As Europeans peered into an uncertain future, they drew upon the Renaissance for meaning, precedents, and identity. Many claimed to find inspiration or models in the Renaissance, but as we move across the continent's borders and through the century's decades, we find that the Renaissance was many different things to many different people. This collection brings together the work of sixteen authors who examine the many Renaissances conceived by European novelists and poets, artists and composers, architects and city planners, political theorists and politicians, businessmen and advertisers. The essays fall into three groups: "Aesthetic Recoveries of Strategic Pasts"; "The Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars"; and "Material Culture and Manufactured Memories." |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Aesthetic Recoveries of Strategic Pasts | 11 |
Du Bellay de SainteBeuve à lhistoire littéraire | 23 |
la réception critique | 41 |
Les peintres de la Renaissance au coeur de lesthétique | 57 |
The NineteenthCentury Renaissance and the Modern | 73 |
The Renaissance in NineteenthCentury Culture Wars | 89 |
Giacomo Meyerbeers Les Huguenots Staging | 121 |
Renaissance Motifs in Ugo Foscolos | 143 |
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