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

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, 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 si, Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities, 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 si, Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities
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  • Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities
  • Written by author Janell Watson
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, March 2006
  • 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 si
  • A study of the significance of curiosities and collecting in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French literature.Times Literary Supplement - Graham RobbThis is a skillful, wide-ranging exercise in literary sociology which should inte
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Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1The bibelot: A nineteenth-century object5
2The logic(s) of material culture: Imitation, accumulation, and mobility27
3The fashionable artistic interior: Social (re)encoding in the domestic sphere57
4Flaubert's "musees recus": Bouvard and Pecuchet's consumerist epistemology83
5Narrate, describe, or catalogue? The novel and the inventory form in Balzac, the Goncourts, and Huysmans109
6The parlour of critical theory: Reading dwelling space across disciplines143
7Rearranging the Oedipus: Fantastic and decadent floor-plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde170
Notes195
Bibliography210
Index225


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