Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction

Klappentext A 1999 analysis of how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. Zusammenfassung This 1999 book examines how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. A wide cultural perspective informs close readings of tales of adultery! illegitimacy! incest and divorce by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto neglected figures of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: fin de siècle, fin de famille?; Part I. The Promiscuous Narrative of 'Pot-Bouille': 1. Demon lover or erotic atheist?; 2. The rhythms of performance; Part II. Pleasures and Fears of Paternity: Maupassant and Zola: 3. Bel-Ami: fantasies of seduction and colonization; 4. Incest in Les Rougon-Macquart; Part III. The Blindness of Passions: Huysmans, Hennique and Zola: 5. The conquest of privacy in A Rebours; 6. Painting, politics and architecture; Coda: Bourget's Un Divorce and the 'honnête femme'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas White
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521562744
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56274-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies