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The Drowned Muse Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity

Hardcover • 2015 • English • 1. edition

The Drowned Muse Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity

By Anne-Gaëlle Saliot

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The Drowned Muse is a study of the extraordinary destiny, in the history of European culture, of an object which could seem, at first glance, quite ordinary in the history of European culture. It tells the story of a mask, the cast of a young girl's face entitled "L'Inconnue de la Seine" (the Unknown Woman of the Seine), and its subsequent metamorphoses as a cultural figure. Legend has it that the "Inconnue" drowned herself in Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. The forensic scientist te...Show more

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ISBN

9780198708629

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Drowned Muse Casting the Unknown Woman of the Seine Across the Tides of Modernity

Format

Hardcover

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