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Publication details for Professor David Baguley

2003 Baguley, David Art and Literature of the Second Empire/Les Arts et la Littérature du Second Empire, Durham Modern Languages Series, 220 pp.
  • Publication type: Books: edited
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780719085857

Author(s) from Durham

Abstract

This volume explores the characteristics of the art and literature of the Second Empire in France; it examines the attitudes and positioning of artists and writers of the period in relation to a regime of dubious legitimacy, and the ways in which that regime exploited to its advantage the artistic capital available to it.