Edmond de Goncourt, Manette Salomon

Rachel Skokowski (University of Oxford)

Ed. by Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: David Elwyn Evans (University of St Andrews), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Elisabeth Gerwin (University of Lethbridge), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1867

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Manette Salomon

, the Goncourt brothers’ sixth novel, captures the lives and creative struggles of artists working in Paris in the 1840s and 1850s. Published in 1867, it

was the first novel to provide a realistic depiction of the contemporary art world of nineteenth-century France. Overshadowed since the nineteenth century by Emile Zola’s novel

L’Œuvre

(1886),

Manette Salomon

has been revisited by recent scholarship and is now recognized as a significant representation of the artist in nineteenth-century French fiction.

Manette Salomon is one of the seven novels co-authored by Jules and Edmond de Goncourt before Jules’ untimely death at age thirty-nine in 1870. It was published serially in Le Temps under the title of L’Atelier Langibout from January-March 1867, then as Manette

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Citation: Skokowski, Rachel. "Manette Salomon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 October 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=28330, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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