Cooking with mud : the idea of mess in nineteenth-century art and fiction
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Cooking with mud : the idea of mess in nineteenth-century art and fiction
Oxford University Press, 2000
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内容説明
It seems safe to assume that people started to drop things as soon as they started to pick them up, and that even the most aboriginal litterings and spillages did not pass entirely without comment. Mess is age-old and universal, both as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the nineteenth century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake: a development
which had something to do with the gradual fading, amid a great deal of reassertion, of doctrines of determinism; and something to do with democracy, which would be hard to imagine without litter. Messes, like modern identities, happen by accident; their representation, in painting and fiction, made it
possible to think boldly and inventively about chance. Ranging widely-from Turner to Courbet, Cezanne, and Degas, and from Melville to Maupassant, Chekhov, Gissing, and the New Woman writers-this book outlines a style of commentary on modern life in which the ancient dichotomy of order and chaos (culture and anarchy) was supplanted, at least temporarily, by a distinction between different kinds and qualities of mess.
目次
- Introduction
- Turner's Litter
- Spitting Mad: Melville's Juices
- Mess and Modernity
- Modern Writers I: English Mess
- Modern Writers II: English Nausea
- Modernity and Its Discontents: Flaubert, Manet, Zola, Cezanne, Maupassant
- Gissing's Fry-Ups: Mess, Waste, and the Definition of Working-Class Culture
- Body Politics: Mess, Marriage, and the New Woman
- Degas's Studio
- Conclusion
- Index
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