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19th-Century French Novel
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The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels by Anka MuhlsteinISBN: 9781590518052
Publication Date: 2017-01-31
With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Balzac's Omelette and Monsieur Proust's Library, Anka Muhlstein's Pen And Brush revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans and Maupassant - through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts.
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Enemy Within: Culture Wars and Political Identity in Novels of the French Third Republic by Gilbert D. ChaitinISBN: 9780814256206
Publication Date: 2021-01-29
In The Enemy Within, Gilbert D. Chaitin deepens our understanding of the nature and sources of culture wars during the French Third Republic. By deploying Lacanian concepts to understand the "erotics of politics" revealed in the novels of this period, Chaitin examines the formation of national identity, offering a new intellectual history of the period and shedding light on the intimate relations among literature, education, philosophy, morality, and political order.
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The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction by Patrick M. BrayISBN: 9780810166387
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map. In this significant study, Patrick M. Bray charts a new direction in critical theory.
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Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust by Cormac NewarkISBN: 9780521118903
Publication Date: 2011-03-31
The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra.
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James Joyce and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel by Finn Fordham (Editor); Rita Sakr (Editor)ISBN: 9789042032903
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
The essays of this volume show how Joyce's work engaged with the many upheavals and revolutions within the French nineteenth-century novel and its contexts. They delve into the complexities of this engagement, tracing its twists and turns, and reemerge with fascinating and rich discoveries. The contributors explore Joyce's explicit and implicit responses to Alexandre Dumas, Honore de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola and, of course, Flaubert.
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Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Dorothy KellyISBN: 9780271032665
Publication Date: 2008-03-18
Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a "new Pygmalion" turns away from a real woman he has loved or desired and prefers instead his artificial re-creation of her. The central chapters examine this plot and its meanings in multiple texts of each author. The premise is that this shared scenario stems from the discovery in the nineteenth century that humans are transformable.
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Fiction Rivals Science: The French Novel from Balzac to Proust by Allen ThiherISBN: 9780826263469
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
In Fiction Rivals Science, Allen Thiher describes the epistemic rivalry that the major nineteenth-century French novelists felt in dealing with science. After brief considerations of Stendhal, Thiher focuses on the four most important "realist" novelists in France: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and, going into the twentieth century, Proust. According to Thiher, each of these novelists considered himself to be in competition with science to make the novel an instrument for knowledge.
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