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The Sentimental Education of the Novel /

"Cohen draws on archival research, resurrecting scores of forgotten nineteenth-century novels, to demonstrate that the codes most closely identified with realism were actually the invention of sentimentality, a powerful aesthetic of emerging liberal-democratic society, although Balzac and Stend...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Margaret, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1999]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reconstructing the Literary Field
  • Ch. I. Conflicting Duties: Sentimental Poetics
  • Ch. II. The Novel Is a Young Man of Great Expectations: Realism against Sentimentality
  • Ch. III. The Heart and the Code: George Sand and the Sentimental Social Novel
  • Ch. IV. A Compromised Position: French Realism and the Femme Auteur.