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- The Aesthetics of Artifice: Villiers’s L’Ève future
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
summary
A detailed reading of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's 1886 novel L'Eve future, this study explores the author's construction of the android woman from two angles: science and art. Marie Lathers shows that the novel is a satire of the era's belief that science would cure the ills of the modern world and redeem the femme fatale. She also exposes Villiers's prescient discussion of technologies that form hybrids of science and art. The only lengthy study of Villiers's novel in English, Lathers's book engages significant thinkers of nineteenth-century French aesthetic, medical, and scientific discourse. Contemporary cultural and feminist criticism, particularly that of Roland Barthes, Mary Ann Doane, and Judith Butler, forms the framework of her analysis.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. 17-18
- Introduction
- pp. 19-26
- Chapter 1: Representational Texts
- pp. 27-45
- Chapter 2: Photosculpture
- pp. 46-55
- Chapter 3: Sculpture
- pp. 56-84
- Chapter 4: Photography
- pp. 85-110
- Chapter 5: Early Images of Psychoanalysis
- pp. 111-136
- Conclusion
- pp. 137-142
- Works Cited
- pp. 143-148
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469645063
Related ISBN(s)
9780807892589
MARC Record
OCLC
1080549409
Pages
148
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
Open Access
No