Literature and Material Culture From Balzac to Proust - The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities

Klappentext A study of the significance of curiosities and collecting in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French literature. Zusammenfassung 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 made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The bibelot: a nineteenth-century object; 2. The logic(s) of material culture: imitation, accumulation, and mobility; 3. The fashionable artistic interior: social (re)encoding in the domestic sphere; 4. Flaubert's 'Musées reçus': Bouvard and Pécuchet's consumerist epistemology; 5. Narrate, describe, or catalogue? The inventory form in Balzac, the Goncourts, and Huysmans; 6. The parlour of critical theory: Reading dwelling space across disciplines; 7. Rearranging the Oedipus: fantastic and decadent floor-plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Janell Watson, Janell (University of Richmond Watson, Professor Janell Watson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2000
• EAN: 9780521661560
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66156-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies