Selected Writings on Art and Literature

Contents Introduction 7 1 The Salon of 1845 [Extract] 33 2 The Salon of 1846 [Extract] 47 3 Of Virtuous Plays and Novels 108 4 The Universal Exhibition of 1855: the Fine Arts [Extract] 115 5 Of the Essence of Laughter, and generally of the Comic in the Plastic Arts 140 6 Edgar Allan Poe, his Life and Works 162 7 Further Notes on Edgar Poe 188 8 Some French Caricaturists 209 9 Some Foreign Caricaturists 232 10 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 244 11 Théophile Gautier 256 12 The Salon of 1859 [Extract] 285 13 Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris 325 14 The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix 358 15 The Painter of Modern Life 390 Notes 437