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The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

Lucey, Michael

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Series: Series Q

Literary CriticismSexuality

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ISBN10: 082233156X
ISBN13: 9780822331568
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 25 2003
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze--as well as represent--a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history, economics, law, and all the many structures within which sexualities take form.

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