Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Imagery and Ideology: Literature and Painting -- Ideology Laid Bare: Corneille and David -- Imagery and Conflicting Ideologies: Chateaubriand and Girodet -- The Modern Pygmalion: Balzac and Daumier -- ''Les trois glorieuses'': Stendhal, Delacroix, and Hugo -- Idealizing the Image of the Peasant: Sand, Holbein, and Millet -- Salome's Dance: Flaubert, Moreau, and Huysmans -- From Imagery to Ideology through Irony: Zola and Manet -- Impressionist Ideology: Maupassant, Monet, and Renoir père et fils -- Kaleidoscopic Images of Algerian Women: Delacroix, Picasso, and Djebar -- Conclusion: Reading in the Modern Mode -- References -- Index. |