The Fallen Veil : : A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France / / Raisa Adah Rexer.

Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literat...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 87 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • PART I The Second Empire
  • Chapter 1 Art, Obscenity, and Censorship: 1839–1870
  • Chapter 2 The Judgment of Phryne, or, The Model’s Meaning
  • Chapter 3 Baudelaire’s Bodies
  • Chapter 4 Manette Salomon and Anti- Modernity
  • PART II The Third Republic
  • Chapter 5 The Rise of an International Industry: 1870–1900
  • Chapter 6 The Dangerous Streets
  • Chapter 7 Nana in the Nude
  • Chapter 8 Maizeroy and the Feminist Photo- Novel
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments