Nineteenth-Century French Fan Poetry
by
Erin E. Edgington
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Fashioned Texts and Painted Booksexamines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan's identity as a symbol of feminine sexuality, as a collectible art object, and, especially, as an alternative book form well suited to the...