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The drowned muse : casting The unknown woman of the Seine across the tides of modernity
- Title
- The drowned muse : casting The unknown woman of the Seine across the tides of modernity / Anne-Gaëlle Saliot.
- Author
- Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle, 1979-
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-4667 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xiv, 373 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book is the study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could, at first glance, seem quite ordinary. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled 'L'Inconnue de la Seine,' the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. 'L'Inconnue' names the death mask of a girl who supposedly drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. Legend has it that the forensic scientist tending to the corpse awaiting identification on a block of ice at the Paris Morgue, was so struck by her allure that he captured in plaster the contours of her face. The unknown girl, also called "The Mona Lisa of Suicide", has become the object of an obsessive interest that started in the late 1890s, reached its peak in the 1930s and continues to reverberate today.
- Series Statement
- Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
- Uniform Title
- Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-4667
- ISBN
- 9780198708629
- 0198708629
- OCLC
- 922717484
- Author
- Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle, 1979- author.
- Title
- The drowned muse : casting The unknown woman of the Seine across the tides of modernity / Anne-Gaëlle Saliot.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Oxford modern languages and literature monographsOxford modern languages and literature monographs.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-4667