1st Edition
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de siècle
Introduction
Chapter One: 1857, Part I: Plays with Sad Clowns
Chapter Two: 1857, Part II: Making Clown Faces
Chapter Three: 1879, Part I: Suspending Identity with the Hanlon-Lees
Chapter Four: 1879, Part II: Time and Space and the Hanlon-Lees Effect
Chapter Five: The Paradox of the Lady Acrobat
Chapter Six: The Poetics of Pantomime and Circus, Part I: Jules Laforgue
Chapter Seven: The Poetics of Pantomime and Circus, Part II: Octave Mirbeau
Epilogue
Biography
Jennifer Forrest is Professor of French at Texas State University. She is the editor of The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day: Essays on Film Series (McFarland, 2008) and co-editor of Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (SUNY, 2002).
