Pierrots on the stage of desire : nineteenth-century French literary artists and the comic pantomime / Robert Storey

Storey, Robert F. (1945-)

1985, 1st edition. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #424040
ISBN: 0691066280

Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index. Contents; Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Deburau -- II. Paul Legrand, Champfleury, and Pantomime after Deburau -- III. In Pursuit of Colombine: Charles Nodier and Charles Baudelaire -- IV. Pierrot posthume: Théophile Gautier -- V. Pierrot narcissique: Théodore de Banville -- VI. Pierrot emmerdant: Gustave Flaubert -- VII. Pierrot glacé: Edmond de Goncourt -- VIII. Pierrot oedipien: J.-M. Huysmans -- IX. Pierrot pubeÌ re: Paul Verlaine -- X. Pierrot Vanishes: Paul Margueritte and Stéphane Mallarmé -- XI. Epilogue: Eclipse -- Handlist of Pantomime Scenarios -- Index.

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