Zigeuner, Wilde und Exoten: Fremdbilder in der franzosischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Zigeuner, Wilde und Exoten: Fremdbilder in der franzosischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. By KARL HOLZ. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. 2002. 198 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-503-06137-1.

Zigeuner, Wilde und Exoten explores images of the Other in nineteenth-century French literature, focusing on classics as well as on less well-known works of Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, Theophile Gautier, Prosper Merimee, George Sand, and Pierre Loti. As is demonstrated by numerous studies, such as those by David Powell (Le Siecle de George Sand (Amsterdam: Atlanta, 1998)), Elwood Hartman (Three Nineteenth-Century French Writers/Artists and the Maghreb: The Literary and Artistic Depictions of North Africa by Theophile Gautier, Eugene Fromentin, and Pierre Loti (Tubingen: Narr, 1994)), Fernande Bartfeld ('Mouvance, mutation et progres dans Notre Dame de Paris', Les Lettres romanes, 47 (1993), 33-39), and Dominique Maingueneau (Carmen: les...

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