Transposing Art Into Texts in French Romantic LiteratureThis book examines literary representations of various art forms in a series of major texts from the Romantic period of French literature (1800 1850). There has been considerable recent critical interest in intermediality and specifically in ekphrasis, or the verbal representation of a visual work in Western European literature, but little attention has been given to French writers in this tradition. French poets and novelists made a concerted effort,