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Title

Violetta and her sisters : the Lady of the Camellias : responses to the myth / edited by Nicholas John.

Publication

• London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, [1994]
• ©1994

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Details

Additional Authors

John, Nicholas.

Description

x, 305 pages : illustrations, 1 facsimile, music, portraits; 22 cm

Subject

• Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
• Dumas, Alexandre, 1824-1895
• Dame aux camélias (Play) (Dumas, Alexandre)
• Traviata (Verdi, Giuseppe)
• Women in literature
• Women in art > Social aspects
• Women > Social conditions
• Women in literature > Social aspects
• Women in literature > Social aspects
• Women in art > Social aspects
• Women in literature
• Women > Social conditions

Contents

• Introduction / Nicholas John -- Violetta and her Sisters / Alessandra Comini -- pt. 1. The Woman in the City. Bohemians, Grisettes and Demi-mondaines / Elizabeth Wilson. Paris -- Elevation / Alfred De Vigny. Grisettes and Lorettes. Some French Caricaturists / Charles Baudelaire. Gavarni's Collected Works / Theophile Gautier. The Wild Ass's Skin / Honore De Balzac. Rolla / Alfred De Musset. Prostitution in the City of Paris / Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet. Walks in London / Flora Tristan. Lazare / Auguste Barbier. Moral Sketches / Marie D'Agoult. On Liberty / Marie D'Agoult. La Servante / Louise Colet. letters to Louise Colet / Gustave Flaubert. Le Crepuscule du soir / Charles Baudelaire -- Epilogue / Charles Baudelaire. fils A Propos the Lady of the Camellias / Alexandre Dumas. Madame Edouard de Perregaux / Beatrice Perregaux. Myth or Reality? / Martine Segalen. Liberation -- A Life's Work / Phyllis Luman Metal. Not Human Beings But Things / Estela V. Welldon.
• Dr Ruth and Marguerite Gautier / Ruth Westheimer. A True Romance / Barbara Cartland -- pt. 2. The Making of a Myth. The Beautiful Corpse / Lucy Hughes-Hallett. From Fact to Fiction / Lucy Hughes-Hallett. letter to Agenor de Guiche / Marie Duplessis. letters to Edouard de Perregaux / Marie Duplessis. fils Elegie / Alexandre Dumas. fils The Lady of the Camellias: scenes from the play and the novel / Alexandre Dumas. Camelia et Paquerette / Theophile Gautier. Preface to Indiana / George Sand. Preface to The Devil's Pond / George Sand. Amour / Marceline Desbordes-Valmore. letter to her son Maurice / George Sand. Love / Jules Michelet. Intimate Diaries / Charles Baudelaire. Him / Louise Colet. A Nice Reflection / Hilary Spurling. The Purloined Necklace / Nicole Ward Jouve. 'I Desire the Law' / Toril Moi. 'We're Quits, Messieurs!' / Christine Bruckner. 'Tootaloo Marguerite!' / Everett Quinton. A Nun's Tale / Lavinia Byrne. La Belle Dame sans Merci / Mieke Kolk.
• The Song of Armand Duval's Maid / Michelene Wandor. Il traviato / Simone Benmussa. Our Lady of the Flowers / Naomi Segal. Violettas, Marguerites and Camellias / Valeria Moretti -- pt. 3. Love and Art for Sale. The Fallen Woman in French Nineteenth-Century Painting / Philip Hook. Phryne / James Pradier. The Contessa d'Adda / Vincenzo Vela. The Vow against Nature / Salvatore Grita. And For Ever!! And [actual symbol not reproducible] / Emile Hebert. Chant d'Amour / Alphonse De Lamartine. Elegie / Elisa Mercoeur. Fantomes / Victor Hugo. Mary Magdalen in the House of the Pharisee / Jean Beraud. The Trials of Madame Bovary and Les Fleurs du mal. review of Madame Bovary / Charles Baudelaire. Love and Art for Sale in the July Monarchy / Philip Ward-Jackson -- pt. 4. Reincarnations. Reincarnations. Art and Reality / Mary Jane Phillips-Matz. From the correspondence of Giuseppe Verdi. letters to Marie d'Agoult / Franz Liszt. From the correspondence of Giuseppina Strepponi.
• La traviata in London: from the Illustrated London News. Remarks on the Morality of Dramatic Compositions with particular reference to La traviata, etc. La traviata at the Royal Italian Opera: the authorized programme, 1857. obituary of Maria Piccolomini / Joseph Bennett. Staging a Tragedy of the Day / Mercedes Viale Ferrero. From Marguerite to Violetta / Daniela Goldin. 'Traviata-ism' and the Great Social Evil / Lynda Nead. What If? / Isabelle Emerson. Look Behind You ... / Maggie Hemingway. Violetta and Germont / Rhian Samuel. The Silence of Violetta / Sophie Fuller. A Finnish Violetta / Riikka Hakola. The Stage and I / Gemma Bellincioni. Felsenstein's Violetta / Irmgard Arnold. Marguerite and Armand / Margot Fonteyn. The Writing on the Wall / Peter Brook. The Adjusted Woman / Josephine Barstow. Conducting Traviata / Sian Edwards. The Challenge of Violetta / Helen Field. On the Eve / Ivan Turgenev.

ISBN

• 0571166652
• 9780571166657

LCCN

94164546

OCLC

• ocm29845296
• 29845296
• SCSB-2037914

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library