Introduction : the critical history -- I. Poetic soil : the background of Provence -- II. Faith and death : vernacular traditions in the early works -- III. Resurrection and repentance : La Madeleine et le Christ aux limbes -- IV. Patriarchs and protagonists : biblical images and the context of romanticism -- V. Outcast at the feast : Cézanne's picnics and the art of the Fête-Galante -- VI. The ideal of the real : early essays in genre -- VII. Savagery redeemed : a reinterpretation of L'Enlèvement -- VIII. The landscape of temptation : literature and music in the fantasies of 1870 -- IX. Form as subject : The transitional years.
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