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Théophile Gautier

Lifespan
1811 – 1872
Nationality
French
Active
1836 – 1882
Works held
3

Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) was a leading French Romantic, a poet and critic whose ‘art for art’s sake’ credo shaped a generation. His fantastic tales, the mummy-romance ‘The Mummy’s Foot’, the vampire story ‘La Morte Amoureuse’, the hashish-dream ‘The Club of Hashish-Eaters’, are exquisitely crafted works of the supernatural imagination, admired for their sensuous style and dreamlike invention.

The works

  1. 1882
    Cover of One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances
  2. 1840
    Cover of The Mummy's Foot The Mummy's Foot
  3. 1836
    Cover of Clarimonde Clarimonde

Wrote across

1830s1840s1880s

Recurring themes

HorrorFantasy

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Alexandre DumasAlgernon BlackwoodAnna Bonus KingsfordAnonymousArlo BatesArthur MachenArthur Quiller-CouchBaron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Mark TwainJules VerneEdward BellamyAndrew LangBaron Edward Bulwer Lytton LyttonJohn Ames MitchellLewis CarrollEdwin Abbott AbbottFrank R. StocktonGeorges Le Faure

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