The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A Caged Animal: The Avant-garde Artist in Edmond and Jules de Goncourt’s Manette Salomon

Chapter 4 The Decadent Deep Sea: Jules Laforgue’s “At the Berlin Aquarium”

Chapter 5 Said the Spider to the Fly: The Triumph of the Minor in Octave Mirbeau’s In the Sky

Chapter 6 Féline Fatale : The New Woman as Cat-Woman in Rachilde’s L’Animale

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Henri Rousseau and Synthetic Naïveté