The Misfit of the Family - Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

Examines the portrayal of sexuality in Balzac and the psychoanalytic preoccupations of his critics.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xiii

Introduction: Balzac and Alternative Families 1

1. Legal Melancholy: Balzac's Eugénie Grandet and the Napoleonic Code 31

2. On Not Getting Married in a Balzac Novel 65

Interlude: Balzac and Same-Sex Relations in the 1830s 82

3. Balzac's Queer Cousins and Their Friends 124

4. The Shadow Economy of Queer Social Capital: Lucien de Rubempré and Vautrin 171

Epilogue: Vautrin's Progeny 225

Notes 239

Works Cited 289

Index 303

A propos de l'auteur

Michael Lucey is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Gide’s Bent: Sexuality, Politics, Writing.

Résumé

In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. This book reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze - as well as represent - a range of forms of sexuality.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lucey, Michael Lucey
• Edition: Duke University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 25.08.2003
• EAN: 9780822331568
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3156-8
• Pages: 344
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Poids: 612 g
• Thèmes: Series Q; Series Q
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée