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Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction

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Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction - Trotter, David
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Mess is age-old and universal, as phenomenon and as topic. The evidence collected in this book suggests, however, that the second half of the nineteenth century saw the first stirrings in Western culture of a primary interest in mess for its own sake. Messes, like modern identities, happen by accident; their representation in painting and fiction made it possible to think boldly and inventively about chance. Ranging widely--from Turner to Degas, and from Melville to Maupassant and the New Woman writers--this book outlines a ...

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Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction 2000, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780198185031

Hardcover