Oh yes! Starkie is...er...dated in more than one way. I have an English language bio of Gautier at home that was published in the 1930s (from what I recall) and it's even worse - I recall the author lapsing into sneery Anglocentricism, but I could be overly harsh.
You've seen me rec it before, but "Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape 1800 - 1850" by Michael Marrinan is an excellent source - it covers physical as well as artistic spaces, and explores everything from the Romantic movement interacting with advances in printing to just why no one really knew what to do with the Place de la Bastille and all its memories and associated cultural narratives. A lot of our favourite people from this era have a look in - some great stuff there on Arago and the developmento of photography, for example (all I could think was oh, Combeferre - how you would have loved it!).
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Date: 2014-04-22 05:06 am (UTC)You've seen me rec it before, but "Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape 1800 - 1850" by Michael Marrinan is an excellent source - it covers physical as well as artistic spaces, and explores everything from the Romantic movement interacting with advances in printing to just why no one really knew what to do with the Place de la Bastille and all its memories and associated cultural narratives. A lot of our favourite people from this era have a look in - some great stuff there on Arago and the developmento of photography, for example (all I could think was oh, Combeferre - how you would have loved it!).