Spectacles of Realism - Gender, Body, Genre

With particular reference to nineteenth-century French culture, the contributors explore the role realism has played in the social construction of gender and sexuality. Among their subjects are nineteenth-century physiologies, photographs, caricatures, and Balzac's Comedie humaine; the ethnographic claims of the Goncourts' naturalism and the historical claims of Zola's; and the allure of exotica displayed at new museums and international expositions.

Summary

Despite rumours of its demise in literary theory and practice, realism persists. Why this is, and how realism is relevant to current interdisciplinary debates in gender studies and cultural studies, are the questions underlying this work.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Cohen, Margaret Prendergast Cohen, COHEN MARGARET PRENDERGAST CHRIS, Christopher Prendergast, Social Text Collective
• Assisted by: Margaret Cohen (Editor), Christopher Prendergast (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.1995
• EAN: 9780816625215
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-2521-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Cultural Politics; Studies in Classical Philology; Cultural Politics S.; Studies in Classical Philology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories