"The articles that appear in this collection were presented as papers at the Cambridge Annual French Graduate Conference held at King's College, Cambridge in April 2008"--P. [xi]. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Haitian bride of Frankenstein : disintegrating beauty, monstrousness and race in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Chronique d'un faux-amour / Andrew Asibong. The beauty of lame sonnets / Dominique Chaigne -- Beauty and monstrosity in nineteenth-century French art criticism 1801-1824 / Fiona Gatty -- A dance of angels and monsters : Victor Hugo's caducean aesthetics / Cecilia A. Falgas-Ravry -- Une œuvre barbare et délicate : Hervé Guibert and the limits of representation / Catherine Markey -- Uncanny Balbec : crypts, nightmares and phantoms in Les intermittences du cœur / Anna Magdalena Elsner -- The flower and the monster : on Huysmans' painters / Nicolas Valazza -- Surrealism and the sublime or the vertiginous plunging into the real / Klem James -- Neither beast nor man : qu'est que c'est qu'un monstre? / Martin Llewellyn -- The beastly and the courtly in medieval tales of transformation : Bisclaveret, Melion and Mélusine / Miranda Griffin -- Diane as beauty : three seventeenth-century examples / Ruth G. Vorstman -- The black maid and her mistress in Manet and Zola / Jennifer Yee -- The monstrous female : images of abjection in Marie NDiaye's Hilda / Elizabeth Lindley -- Haitian bride of Frankenstein : disintegrating beauty, monstrousness and race in Jacques Stephen Alexis's Chronique d'un faux-amour / Andrew Asibong.
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