The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture - 9781032339658

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The Gamin de Paris in Nineteenth-Century Visual CultureDelacroix, Hugo, and the French Social Imaginary\nAuthor(s): Marilyn R. Brown\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032339658, 978-1032339658\nSynopsis\nThe revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugne Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People [tel] and Victor Hugos novel Les Misrables [tel]. Over the course of the nineteenth century, images of the Paris urchin entered the collective social imaginary as cultural and psychic sites of memory, whether in avant-garde or more conventional visual culture. Visual and literary paradigms of the mythical gamin de Paris were born of recurring political revolutions (1830, 1832, 1848, 1871) and of masculine, bourgeois identity constructions that responded to continuing struggles over visions and fantasies of nationhood. With the destabilization of traditional, patriarchal family models, the dimin.