Jules Michelet - Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France

Demonstrates the crucial role that art-writing played as a tool of historical analysis in the work of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet's work, decisively influencing his most important historical concepts, his idea of history, and his view of the practice of the historian.

About the author

Michèle Hannoosh is Professor of French at the University of Michigan. She is the author of, among other books, Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity and translator of Eugène Delacroix’s Journey to the Maghreb and Andalusia, 1832: The Travel Notebooks and Other Writings, both published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

Demonstrates the crucial role that art-writing played as a tool of historical analysis in the work of the Romantic historian Jules Michelet’s work, decisively influencing his most important historical concepts, his idea of history, and his view of the practice of the historian.

Product details

• Authors: Michele Hannoosh, Michèle Hannoosh, Michele (Professor of French Hannoosh
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2019
• EAN: 9780271083568
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08356-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; French, France, Theory of art, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Historiography, ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, History: theory and methods