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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust :/ Janell Watson.
Reminder of title:	the collection and consumption of curiosities /
remainder title:	Literature & Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
Author:	Watson, Janell,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 224 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	French literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485909
ISBN:	9780511485909 (ebook)

Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust : = the collection and consumption of curiosities /
Watson, Janell,

Literature and material culture from Balzac to Proust :the collection and consumption of curiosities /Literature & Material Culture from Balzac to ProustJanell Watson. - 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in French ;62. - Cambridge studies in French ;62..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.

ISBN: 9780511485909 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

568756
French literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PQ283 / .W38 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 840

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