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

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Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literarature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Janell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge Studies in French, 62.
Temas:
1800-1899
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Art objects in literature.
Littérature française > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Objets d'art dans la littérature.
Art objects in literature
French literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 The bibelot
  • THE MULTIPLICATION OF OBJECTS
  • FROM THE HOUSEHOLD TO THE COLLECTION AND BACK
  • REVOLUTIONIZING THE MARKETPLACE
  • NINETEENTH-CENTURY AESTHETICS
  • "DES HOMMES DE MUSÉE"
  • CHAPTER 2 The logic(s) of material culture
  • IMITATION
  • ACCUMULATION
  • MOBILITY
  • CHAPTER 3 The fashionable artistic interior
  • THE COLLECTION AS DECOR
  • FROM ANTIQUARIANISM TO AESTHETICISM: THE COLLECTOR AT HOME
  • THE ARTIST AS COLLECTOR.
  • THE HOME OF THE WRITER-AS-ARTIST
  • VULGARIZED ARTISTIC INTERIORS
  • GENDERING THE BIBELOT: FASHION AND SEDUCTION VERSUS ART AND ERUDITION
  • COURTESANS AND ACTRESSES: SEXUALIZED INTERIORS
  • BACHELORS: MACHO DOMESTICITY
  • MASCULINIZING ART, FEMINIZING FASHION
  • CHAPTER 4 Flaubert's "musées reçus"
  • HISTORICIZING THE MUSEUM
  • DOMESTICATING THE MUSEUM
  • AN OVERLOOKED SPATIAL ORDER
  • MIMETIC ORDER
  • ARTISTIC DISORDER
  • SOCIAL ORDER
  • THE ORDER OF CONSUMPTION
  • CHAPTER 5 Narrate, describe, or catalogue?
  • LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE CATALOGUE FORM
  • THE GONCOURTS: THE WRITER AS BIBELOTIER.
  • TOWARDS AN AUTONOMY OF THINGS: LA PEAU DE CHAGRIN, MANETTE SALOMON
  • ART, THE MARKET, AND THE LAW: THE CATALOGUE IN LE COUSIN PONS
  • THE NOVEL AS CATALOGUE, THE HERO AS MUSEUM: A REBOURS
  • CONSUMERIST CRITICISM
  • CHAPTER 6 The parlour of critical theory
  • DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS
  • BALZAC: A SOCIAL THEORY OF THE HOUSEHOLD INTERIOR
  • PROUST ON THE BALZACIAN INTERIOR
  • NORDAU: A PATHOLOGY OF THE BIBELOT-FILLED INTERIOR
  • SIMMEL: THE ALIENATING EFFECTS OF FIN-DE-SIÉCLE DECOR
  • BAUDRILLARD: THE END OF THE ANTHROPOMORPHIZED INTERIOR
  • MARKETING READABILITY.
  • CHAPTER 7 Rearranging the Oedipus
  • I. FANTASTIC FETISHISM
  • No escaping the marketplace
  • Reviving dead women
  • More female body parts
  • II. DECADENT SIMULACRA
  • Serialized sexuality
  • Rearranging the patriarchal floor-plan
  • Notes
  • 1 THE BIBELOT
  • 2 THE LOGIC(S) OF MATERIAL CULTURE
  • 3 THE FASHIONABLE ARTISTIC INTERIOR
  • 4 FLAUBERT'S "MUSÉES REÇUS"
  • 5 NARRATE, DESCRIBE, OR CATALOGUE?
  • 6 THE PARLOUR OF CRITICAL THEORY
  • 7 REARRANGING THE OEDIPUS
  • Bibliography
  • I. LITERARY WORKS
  • II. NINETEENTH-CENTURY TECHNICAL SOURCES
  • III. SECONDARY SOURCES
  • Index.

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