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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities

Watson, Janell

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Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 62

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521661560
ISBN13: 9780521661560
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 13 2000
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
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. 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.

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