Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust : the collection and consumption of curiosities /

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"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 significant in canonical literature,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watson, Janell
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in French ; 62.
Subjects:
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Art objects in literature
French literature
Literatur
Kunstwerk > Motiv
Französisch
Curiosa.
Frans.
Fictie.
Collectionneurs et collections > Dans la littérature.
Objets d'art > Dans la littérature.
Littérature française > 19e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Art et littérature.
Französisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Bibelot: a Nineteenth-Century Object
  • 2. Logic(s) of Material Culture: Imitation, Accumulation, and Mobility
  • 3. Fashionable Artistic Interior: Social (Re)encoding in the Domestic Sphere
  • 4. Flaubert's 'Musées reçus': Bouvard and Pécuchet's Consumerist epistemology
  • 5. Narrate, Describe, or Catalogue? the Novel and the Inventory form in Balzac, the Goncourts, and Huysmans
  • 6. Parlour of Critical Theory: Reading Dwelling Space Across Disciplines
  • 7. Rearranging the Oedipus: Fantastic and Decadent Floor-plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde.

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