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Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France

Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France

Capitanio, Sarah
Howells, Robin
Kearns, James

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Series: French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Book 20

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3039105132
ISBN13: 9783039105137
Publisher: Peter Lang Uk
Published: Sep 16 2005
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
The thirteen essays in this volume, based on selected papers given at the Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (2003), explore the relationships between symbolic, monetary and literary currencies in nineteenth-century France. Essays focus on the sometimes surprising treatment of capitalism and commodity culture in the works of Mallarmé, Zola and Huysmans; the transfer and borrowing of economic and literary commodities, names, and concepts in nineteenth-century culture, from Flora Tristan's July Monarchy to Schwob's fin-de-siècle moment; and the interplay between wealth and identity, and commerce and globalisation, in the writings of Hugo, Janin, and Balzac. While it is widely acknowledged that the theme of money is central to nineteenth-century literature, this volume is innovative in tracing the variation, breadth and ubiquity of the idea of currencies in the cultural imaginary of the epoch.

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