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Le grand transit moderne : mobility, modernity and French naturalist fiction /

This book explores fictional responses to the changing transport and urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century France, arguing that networks of movement (and an accompanying 'culture of networks') which had become firmly established by the time of the Second Empire constitute a privileged...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duffy, Larry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2005.
Colección:Faux titre ; 260.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A complex kind of training : L'Éducation sentimentale, modernity, and the changing phenomenology of motion
  • An evolutionary naturalist intertext : the traffic jam as exemplary taxonomic motif
  • Haussmannization, circulation, and the ideal city of Au bonheur des dames
  • Convulsions, détraquement, and the circulus : Zola's dehystericisation of prostitution
  • Beyond the pressure principle : bestialisation, anthropomorphism and the "thermodynamic" death instinct in naturalist fiction
  • Maupassant, Doxa, and the banalisation of modern travel
  • "Ce parasite supplémentaire."