Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities (Cambridge Studies in French) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities (Cambridge Studies in French) Book

Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century French literature signals a 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.Read More

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  • 0521661560
  • 9780521661560
  • Janell Watson
  • 13 January 2000
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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