Article: Lavaud, Martine. Theophile Gautier, militant du romantisme.(Book Review)

Paris: Honore Champion, 2001. Pp. 640. ISBN 2-7453-0457-7

The aim of Martine Lavaud's thesis is to disprove the widely held view of Gautier as the youthful Romantic rebel turned dour Parnassian, vanquished by the need to earn a living and thus to conform to the ruling bourgeoisie or officialdom of the Second Empire. By examining numerous and diverse texts of Gautier, Lavaud seeks to demonstrate that Gautier remained a militant Romantic throughout his oeuvre. The question to answer, she states, is not where he deploys his activism "puisqu'il s'infiltre partout, mais comment il s'ecrit, avec quelle portee autocritique, et comment il accorde la 'purete' poetique ...

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