Robert Lethbridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 953575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Lethbridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Lethbridge |
| SIGNATURE | LETHBRIDGE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marie-Hélène Girard, Théophile Gautier, Œuvres complètes , vii
Opposing Frames
Grounded in Zola’s art criticism, this article analyses for the first time his writing on Fromentin over the decade 1866–76. It explores the diverse reasons for a hostility that is inseparable from a wider frame of reference in which Orientalism is perceived as emblematic of a Romantic aesthetic opposed by Zola. Paradoxically, however, Zola’s engagement with Fromentin’s Les Maîtres d’autrefois, opposed to modernist innovation, coincides with his …
Anne-Simone Dufief, Gabrielle Melison-HIRCHWALD et Roger Ripoll (dir.). Dictionnaire Alphonse Daudet . Paris, Honoré Champion, Série « Dictionnaires & Références », n o 52, Paris, 2019, 500 p
Picturing walls
This article was originally published in error before all the necessary corrections had been made. While no material changes have been made to the article, it has since been updated to correct some typographical errors. OUP apologizes for the error.
The Assommoir
Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning. Then, shivering all over from sitting half undressed in the cold air from the window, she’d slumped across the bed, feeling feverish, her cheeks wet with tears. For a week now, when they came out of the Veau à Deux Têtes,* where they had their meals, he’d sent her home to bed with the children and not come in himself until the early hours, saying he’d been looking for a job. That partic…
Assommoir
Zola and the Science of Painting
The article explores a paradox in Zola's writing: the resistance to advances in scientific theory by the author of Du Progrès dans les sciences et dans la poésie (1864), as the first of many such assimilations of scientific progress and artistic trends. This is exemplified by the challenge posed to his Naturalist aesthetic by Michel-Eugène Chevreul's seminal De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs (1839), popularised during the period of Zo…
‘Painting out’ (and ‘reading in’) the Franco-Prussian War
Taking the majority of its examples from the Salon of 1872, this article explores the extent to which official intervention was effective in eliminating from the exhibition potentially inopportune representations of the Franco-Prussian War. The withdrawal of a certain number of works deemed to risk offending the Prussians coincided with the very moment the French government was trying to negotiate the departure of occupying enemy troops under the…
Picturing walls
Émile Zola’s literary oeuvre continues to provide scholars with one of the most comprehensive accounts of nineteenth-century art and culture. Yet the magnitude of this material has resulted in the works of art acquired by Zola over the course of his lifetime being largely overlooked. By focusing on how this ad hoc collection of more than fifty contemporary works was gathered and subsequently dispersed, this article elucidates the influence of clo…
Translating and Traducing
Deliberately angled towards the two areas in which Brian Nelson has made so many invaluable contributions during his scholarly career, this essay explores several related themes. Largely focused on Zola’s art criticism, it highlights errors in the translation of his texts for the Russian periodical Vestnik Evropy, exacerbated by their re-translation into French for modern editions of his work. More problematic are Zola’s unsigned articles in Le S…
The politics of art
In an otherwise exhaustive study of the Battle of the “Kearsarge” and the “Alabama” [Figure 1] (having “left no stone unturned”), the pre-eminent Manet scholar Juliet Wilson-Bareau (2003) sidestepp
La Débâcle
‘My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.’ The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Débâcle seeks to expla…
Debacle
A Cape York Legend
Germinal
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!" While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and powe…
Reflections in the Margin
Systeme de codage de la representation du peuple et de la dimension politique dans L'Assommoir eclaire par la genese de l'oeuvre
Reading the Songs of l'Assommoir
Journal Article READING THE SONGS OF L'ASSOMMOIR Get access ROBERT LETHBRIDGE ROBERT LETHBRIDGE FITZWILLIAM COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLV, Issue 4, October 1991, Pages 435–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLV.4.435 Published: 01 October 1991
Zola, Manet and Thérèse Raquin
ZOLA, MANET AND THÉRÈSE RAQUIN Get access ROBERT LETHBRIDGE ROBERT LETHBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, July 1980, Pages 278–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXIV.3.278 Published: 01 July 1980
Twenty Years of Zola Studies (1956–1975)
Journal Article TWENTY YEARS OF ZOLA STUDIES (1956–1975) Get access ROBERT LETHBRIDGE ROBERT LETHBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, July 1977, Pages 281–293, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXI.3.281 Published: 01 July 1977
The politics of art
In an otherwise exhaustive study of the Battle of the “Kearsarge” and the “Alabama” [Figure 1] (having “left no stone unturned”), the pre-eminent Manet scholar Juliet Wilson-Bareau (2003) sidestepp
Twenty Years of Zola Studies (1956–1975)
Journal Article TWENTY YEARS OF ZOLA STUDIES (1956–1975) Get access ROBERT LETHBRIDGE ROBERT LETHBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXI, Issue 3, July 1977, Pages 281–293, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXI.3.281 Published: 01 July 1977
Zola, Manet and Thérèse Raquin
ZOLA, MANET AND THÉRÈSE RAQUIN Get access ROBERT LETHBRIDGE ROBERT LETHBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, July 1980, Pages 278–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXXIV.3.278 Published: 01 July 1980
Reading the Songs of l'Assommoir
Journal Article READING THE SONGS OF L'ASSOMMOIR Get access ROBERT LETHBRIDGE ROBERT LETHBRIDGE FITZWILLIAM COLLEGECAMBRIDGE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLV, Issue 4, October 1991, Pages 435–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLV.4.435 Published: 01 October 1991
Reflections in the Margin
Systeme de codage de la representation du peuple et de la dimension politique dans L'Assommoir eclaire par la genese de l'oeuvre
Germinal
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!" While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and powe…
A Cape York Legend
La Débâcle
‘My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.’ The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Débâcle seeks to expla…
Debacle
‘Painting out’ (and ‘reading in’) the Franco-Prussian War
Taking the majority of its examples from the Salon of 1872, this article explores the extent to which official intervention was effective in eliminating from the exhibition potentially inopportune representations of the Franco-Prussian War. The withdrawal of a certain number of works deemed to risk offending the Prussians coincided with the very moment the French government was trying to negotiate the departure of occupying enemy troops under the…
Picturing walls
Émile Zola’s literary oeuvre continues to provide scholars with one of the most comprehensive accounts of nineteenth-century art and culture. Yet the magnitude of this material has resulted in the works of art acquired by Zola over the course of his lifetime being largely overlooked. By focusing on how this ad hoc collection of more than fifty contemporary works was gathered and subsequently dispersed, this article elucidates the influence of clo…
Translating and Traducing
Deliberately angled towards the two areas in which Brian Nelson has made so many invaluable contributions during his scholarly career, this essay explores several related themes. Largely focused on Zola’s art criticism, it highlights errors in the translation of his texts for the Russian periodical Vestnik Evropy, exacerbated by their re-translation into French for modern editions of his work. More problematic are Zola’s unsigned articles in Le S…
The politics of art
In an otherwise exhaustive study of the Battle of the “Kearsarge” and the “Alabama” [Figure 1] (having “left no stone unturned”), the pre-eminent Manet scholar Juliet Wilson-Bareau (2003) sidestepp
The Assommoir
Gervaise had waited up for Lantier until two in the morning. Then, shivering all over from sitting half undressed in the cold air from the window, she’d slumped across the bed, feeling feverish, her cheeks wet with tears. For a week now, when they came out of the Veau à Deux Têtes,* where they had their meals, he’d sent her home to bed with the children and not come in himself until the early hours, saying he’d been looking for a job. That partic…
Assommoir
Zola and the Science of Painting
The article explores a paradox in Zola's writing: the resistance to advances in scientific theory by the author of Du Progrès dans les sciences et dans la poésie (1864), as the first of many such assimilations of scientific progress and artistic trends. This is exemplified by the challenge posed to his Naturalist aesthetic by Michel-Eugène Chevreul's seminal De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs (1839), popularised during the period of Zo…
Anne-Simone Dufief, Gabrielle Melison-HIRCHWALD et Roger Ripoll (dir.). Dictionnaire Alphonse Daudet . Paris, Honoré Champion, Série « Dictionnaires & Références », n o 52, Paris, 2019, 500 p
Picturing walls
This article was originally published in error before all the necessary corrections had been made. While no material changes have been made to the article, it has since been updated to correct some typographical errors. OUP apologizes for the error.
Opposing Frames
Grounded in Zola’s art criticism, this article analyses for the first time his writing on Fromentin over the decade 1866–76. It explores the diverse reasons for a hostility that is inseparable from a wider frame of reference in which Orientalism is perceived as emblematic of a Romantic aesthetic opposed by Zola. Paradoxically, however, Zola’s engagement with Fromentin’s Les Maîtres d’autrefois, opposed to modernist innovation, coincides with his …
Marie-Hélène Girard, Théophile Gautier, Œuvres complètes , vii
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