| Description |
1 online resource (x, 227 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in French ; 62
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Cambridge studies in French ; 62.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-224) and index. |
| Summary |
"This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying, and describing the curiosities, antiques, and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarme and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity, or other collectible), 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 restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Art objects in literature.
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Art objects in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Watson, Janell. Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521661560 (DLC) 99012116 (OCoLC)44132030 |
| ISBN |
0511010044 (electronic book) |
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9780511010040 (electronic book) |
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0521661560 |
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9780521661560 |
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0511033516 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511033513 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511151012 |
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9780511151019 |
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051111804X (electronic book) |
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9780511118043 (electronic book) |
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9780511485909 (electronic book) |
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0511485905 (electronic book) |
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9780521025461 |
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052102546X |
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