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New Book
by Pomona College Professor Combines Art History,
Literary Criticism
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 Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism: Blurring
Genre Boundaries (2003, Cambridge University Press) is a
compelling new book that combines art history and literary
criticism in a joint study of the canonical "fathers" of
modernism: artist Edouard Manet and writer Gustave Flaubert.
 In
Manet, Flaubert and the Emergence of Modernism,
author and Pomona College Professor Arden Reed contests the
Greenbergian view that equates modernism with purity of
formal means. Modernism, he argues, is a matter of genre
bending and hybridization, as well as movements between text
and image. Focusing on key works by Manet and Flaubert, Reed
articulates a novel understanding of the cultural
imagination of early modernism. He shows how Manet and
Flaubert actively mix and contaminate their work: Flaubert
with images, Manet with narration. Moreover, Reed extends
the argument another hundred years, to the late 1960s,
claiming we cannot understand 20th-century modernism so long
as we remain locked within single disciplines.
Arden Reed is a Professor of English at Pomona College. A
recipient of fellowships from the Camargo Foundation, the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for
the Humanities, he is the author of Romantic Weather: The
Climates of Coleridge and Baudelaire, which won the First
Book Prize from Brown University Press, and it the editor of
Romanticism and Language.
Pomona College, founding member of the prestigious Claremont
Colleges, is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions. Pomona College is located in the eastern end
of Los Angeles County in the city of Claremont.
Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism: Blurring
Genre Boundaries
Cambridge University Press | November 2003 | 372 pages 85
half-tones 9 color plates
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