| Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities Contributor(s): Watson, Janell (Author) |
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ISBN: 052102546X ISBN-13: 9780521025461 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. She traces the phenomenon from Balzac, who introduced it to canonical literature, through Flaubert, Zola, Rachilde and Lorrain, to Proust. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 840 |
| Lexile Measure: 1590 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in French |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French |