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GLASS PAINTING
The Chamber of Horrors: Victorian Literature
and Ornament
Handicraft Workshop, Week 7
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT (1822 – 1896) , (1830 1870)
“We must ask pardon of the public for offering it this book, and give it due warning of
what it will find therein. The public loves fictitious novels. This is a true novel.
It loves books which make a pretence of introducing their readers to fashionable
society: this book deals with the life of the street.
[…]
The public loves to read pleasant, soothing stories, adventures
that end happily, imaginative works that disturb neither its digestion
nor its peace of mind: this book furnishes entertainment of a
melancholy, violent sort calculated to disarrange the habits and injure
the health of the public. At this day, when the sphere of the Novel is broadening and
expanding, when it is beginning to be the serious, impassioned, living form of literary
study and social investigation, when it is becoming, by virtue of analysis and
psychological research, the true History of contemporary morals, when the novel has
taken its place among the necessary elements of knowledge, it may properly demand its
liberty and freedom of speech.”
Preface to Germinie Lacerteux, 1865
“In Thérèse Raquin I have sought to study
temperaments and not characters. In that
lies the entire book. I have selected
personages sovereignly dominated by their
nerves and their blood, destitute of free
will, led at each act of their life by the
fatalities of their flesh. [These characters]
are human brutes, nothing more. I have
sought to follow, step by step, throughout
the career of these brutes, the secret
working of their passions, the promptings
of their instinct, the cerebral disorders
following a nervous crisis.”
ÉMILE ZOLA (1840 - 1902)
THE ROUGON-MACQUARTS :1871 - 1893
THE S EC OND EMPIRE AN D T HE “HAUSS MANIS ATIO N” O F PARIS
THE PARISIAN DEPARTMENT STORE: AU BON MARCHÉ AND
LES GRANDS MAGASINS DU LOUVRE
Z O L A ' S “ P O E M O F M O D E R N A C T I V I T Y ”
THE SHOPGI
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James Tissot, The
Shopgirl, 1883 - 1885
THE DANGERS OF SHOPPING
Félix Vallotton, Le Bon
Marché , 1898
Félix Vallotton, Le
Bon Marché , 1898
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