FRH 460 WRITERS, PAINTERS, MODELS

A seminar exploring connections between painting and literature in 19th-century France, with emphasis on painters (e.g., Delacroix and Manet) as represented by literary contemporaries (e.g., Baudelaire and Zola); Studying the notion of "models" will demonstrate the persistence of gendered stereotypes of "male" creativity throughout the 19th century and beyond.