The artist as animal in nineteenth-century French literature / Claire Nettleton.

Intro; Acknowledgments; Praise for The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Artist as Anarchist; 1.2 Historical Framework; 1.3 Theoretical Framework: The Modern Animal-The Nineteenth Century Meets Animal Studies?; 1.4 Chapter Summary; References; Part I: Behind Bars: Artists and Animals of the Second Empire; Chapter 2: A Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt's Manette Salomon; 2.1 Contemporary Views of the Visual, Literary Animal; 2.2 The Simian Artist

2.3 The Jardin des Plantes: The Artistic Gateway2.4 Barbizon: The Peasant Artist; References; Chapter 3: Buffon Versus the Beast: Taming the Wild Artist in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin; 3.1 The Bourgeois and the Bull; 3.2 Painting with Mud; 3.3 The Naturalist Project; References; Part II: The Decadent Animals of the Third Republic; Chapter 4: The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue's "At the Berlin Aquarium"; 4.1 Literary Aquariums; 4.2 Through the Eyes of Crustaceans; 4.3 Visions of the Orient; References

Chapter 5: Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau's In the Sky5.1 The Fly-Poet and the Spider-Artist: Writing and Painting as Animalistic Processes; 5.2 Darwin and Decadence: The Splendor of Decay and Horror; 5.3 Enter the Void: The Spontaneous Generation of Art; References; Chapter 6: Féline Fatale: The New Woman as Cat-Woman in Rachilde's L'Animale; 6.1 Animale des Lettres; 6.2 The Second Species: Felines, Femininity and the Avant-garde; 6.3 Feline Frankenstein: Rachilde's Artificial Artist-Animals

6.4 From Balconies to Glass Ceilings: Working Women in Modernity6.5 Cinematic Cats; 6.6 Author Animal; References; Chapter 7: Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Naïveté; References; Index