Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France

Introduction

Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko and Catherine Witt

1 ‘Cet ami qui prête des livres’: Mallarmé and the Practice of Reading
Rosemary Lloyd

2 ‘Elle avait pour la lecture une véritable passion’: Book Culture and Reading in Amable Tastu
Aimée Boutin

3 Reckless Reading in Nerval’s ‘Les Nuits d’octobre’
Ellen S. Burt

4 Better Well Hung Than Ill-Wed: Sighting Cythera
Timothy Raser

5 Judgment and Satire in Baudelaire’s ‘Au Lecteur’
Catherine Witt

6 Gautier on Baudelaire: Lessons from Hawthorne
Joseph Acquisto

7 ‘I turned to look at you to read my thoughts upon your face’: Baudelaire’s readers transposed
Helen Abbott

8 Zut pictura poesis: *Lyric Relations and Legacies in Coin de table and ‘Le Sonnet du Trou du cul’
Robert St. Clair

9 The ‘Zutiste’ and the Parnassian: Verlaine as Reader of Coppée
Nicolas Valazza

10 Illumining the Critical Reader in the Poet: Malvina Blanchecotte and Louise Ackermann
Adrianna M. Paliyenko

11 Tough Crowd: The Perils of Reading Poetry Aloud, or How Literary Value is Negotiated Through Performance
David Evans

12 Reading as a Desperate Practice
Kevin Newmark

Paperback: 9780854572465 / 272 pages / mm x mm

Joseph Acquisto (Editor)

Adrianna M. Paliyenko (Editor)

Adrianna M. Paliyenko is the Charles A. Dana Professor of French at Colby College, Maine.

Catherine Witt (Editor)

Subject: French Studies, Languages, Cultures and Societies

BISAC codes: LIT004150

Thema codes: D, DS

Keywords: French literature, Histoire de la lecture, Literary sociability, Self-reading, Third Republic, Translation, gender studies