Correlation between French Romanticism (literature) and Fine Arts in the view of Gender

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520392
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature (English literature excluded)
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: MURATA Kyoko 大阪府立大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (60229987)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: フランス文学 / ジェンダー / 絵画 / ロマン主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Firstly, I selected the novels of Balzac, George Sand, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Theophile Gautier, and Madame de Stael in order to analyze the interrelation between Literature and Fine Arts, and to clarify the symbolical role that fill some pictures in the structure of the novels. Secondly, having extracted the portrait of the characters from the novels mentioned above, I related each portrait with the figure of Raffaello, Girodet, Rubens, Holbein, or Domenichino, and analyzed it in the view of Gender, comparing with the notion of femininity and masculinity in the 19th Century. Finally, I compared the figures of woman artist in the novels of male and female writers to find what is the difference between them and to clarify what is the originality of the latter.

Free Research Field

19世紀フランス文学